Engineering Manager, OIO Builders

The Okta Identity Orchestration (OIO) Services team’s mission is to help internal and external builders and developers integrate third party services with the Okta product suite. We do this by handling integration submissions from both internal and external developers – reviewing, testing, and publishing them. We also build and maintain best-in-class platform and tooling for internal developers to build, test, and deploy their OIN apps, workflow connectors, and action implementations.

Okta Integration Network (OIN) allows ISVs to integrate deeply with Okta that enterprises then use to give their workforce seamless access to the technology they need. Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for the automation of business processes, including user provisioning lifecycle management, using a library of integrated third-party applications and functions. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to quickly integrate different services, while still enforcing strong security policies. They integrate directly with an organization’s existing services such as directories and identity systems, as well as many other applications. 

The Opportunity

Okta is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team that is responsible for building a unified platform across the OIN and Okta Workflows and support both internal and external developers building integrations using those systems. The team is composed of software engineers and application analysts, and is responsible for interfacing with third party developers and directly handling their integration submissions. The team also builds and maintains the internal platform tooling necessary to manage the efficient rollout and publishing of the integrations to the Okta catalog. These integrations serve as the foundation for Okta customers to easily and seamlessly bring their technology to Okta and roll it out to their workforce.  

This role is responsible for front-line management, team growth, and supporting the team in all Okta processes needed to run an efficient organization. As a rapidly growing team in a fast growth company, this role will be responsible for working with management to realize the vision, help inform strategy and communicate across the organization to set and track dependencies and help other engineering teams build and deploy integrations to third party services. To be successful you would need to bring innovation to everyday problems, lead the team to beat our objectives, engage in future-scale thinking, constantly improve our processes to increase our efficiency and continuously invest in our people to ensure their personal and professional growth.

We are looking for a tenacious hands-on manager who is ready to roll up their sleeves and dig into the technical details where needed and help our platform teams deliver market leading integrations via rock solid tooling, dependable deployments and process automation. Hundreds of organizations around the world depend on running their mission critical identity processes on Okta and this role requires the manager to be always on and quarter-back live site incidents.

You will share our passion and pride in joining an engineering team that strongly believes in designing for scale, reliability and performance using industry best practices to deliver high-quality software. You will partner with the product team and business development to build a compelling product and introduce critical new capabilities to drive adoption of our platform and enrich our ecosystem. 

We run fast and flexible, have a weekly agile release cycle and foster individual ownership. We expect big things from our managers and reward them with stimulating projects, big problems to solve, new and emerging technologies and the opportunity to contribute to the growth of a company that is enabling any company to adopt any technology.

This is a hybrid-work opportunity with the requirement of 3 days of in-person presence in the Bengaluru office.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and manage a team of Software Engineers and App Analysts
• Mentor and grow the team to develop and excel in their area of expertise
• Regularly assesses, addresses and expose risks associated with deliverables 
• Drive cross-functional and cross-departmental product architecture review and discussions 
• Establish strong relationships across the organization with engineering leadership and field teams 
• Establish metrics and processes for regular assessment and drive improvements
• Set clear expectations and foster a positive environment that rewards hard work
• Recruit and mentor software engineers to become engineering leaders
• Handle customer escalations indirectly (through Support) or directly when deemed necessary 
• Work collaboratively with Product Management, QA, Documentation, Operations and Support

What you’ll bring to the role

• 5+ years of hands-on management of full stack engineering teams with experience building API integrations, tooling, automation and deploying services to mission critical environments
• Managed a team of engineers at a software company in a Live Site environment
• Demonstrable experience in API development and API-first approach
• Solid grasp of modern software engineering principles and practices
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with teams, peers and management

Education and Training

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.          
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.