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Okta · 3 hours ago

Engineering Manager - Data Foundations

Bellevue, Washington

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$176K/yr - $264K/yr

2+ years exp

Okta is The World’s Identity Company, focused on providing secure access and identity solutions. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Data Platform Group, responsible for leading a team to design and build foundational data services, enabling high volume and low-latency data solutions.

CRMEnterprise SoftwareIdentity ManagementIT InfrastructureManagement Information SystemsSoftwareWeb Development

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Recruit and mentor a globally distributed and talented group of diverse employees

Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Documentation, Customer Support, Program Management, TechOps, and other scrum teams

Engage in technical design and discussions and also help drive technical architecture

Ensure the happiness and productivity of the team’s software engineers

Communicate the vision of our product to external entities

Help mitigate risk (technical, product, personnel)

Utilize professional acumen to improve Okta’s technology, product, and engineering

Participate in relevant Engineering workgroups and on-call rotations

Foster, enable and promote innovation

Define team metrics and meet productivity goals of the organization

Cloud infrastructure cost tracking and management in partnership with Okta’s FinOps team

Qualification

Distributed systemsData platform experienceCloud computing AWSCloud computing GCPSoftware developmentAgile methodologiesReliability engineeringData processing systemsInnovation promotionFacilitation skillsTeam managementCommunication skills

Required

A track record of leading or managing high performing platform teams (2 year experience minimum)

Experience with end to end project delivery; building roadmaps through operational sustainability

Strong facilitation skills (design, requirements gathering, progress and status sessions)

Production experience with distributed systems running in AWS. GCP a bonus

Passion about automation and leveraging agile software development methodologies

Prior experience with Data Platform

Prior experience in software development with hands-on experience as an IC using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including

Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka

Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam

Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop

Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos

Developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems

Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management

This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire