Engineering Manager, Organizations (auth0)

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Toronto, ON · CIAM Devex-680

Okta is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Auth0 Organizations team. This role will manage, mentor, and coach a team of 9 remote engineers, partner with Product Managers on roadmap delivery, and own the technical quality of the team's estate. The role requires strong architectural knowledge of distributed systems, experience in designing and evolving complex systems, and the ability to track and steer projects to successful delivery. While the company is focused on AI's potential, this specific role is about managing the infrastructure that enables secure identity for AI applications, not directly building AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage, mentor and coach a team of 9 remote engineers, with seniorities up to Staff Engineer level
  2. Effectively partner with your Product Manager on planning and delivering the team’s quarterly and annual roadmap
  3. Own and be accountable for the quality of the team’s technical estate, effectively managing technical debt, addressing security vulnerabilities and ensuring wider cross-team technical initiatives are delivered in a timely manner
  4. Review, provide feedback and help steer the technical design of the features the team is delivering, ensuring these can meet the scale at which Auth0 is operating
  5. Work with other engineering managers in the group to drive cross-team projects and leadership initiatives

Skills

Required

  • Manage, mentor and coach a team of engineers
  • Partner with Product Managers on planning and roadmap delivery
  • Own and be accountable for technical quality, technical debt, and security vulnerabilities
  • Review and provide feedback on technical design
  • Drive cross-team projects and leadership initiatives
  • Bridge the asks and needs of the business and the team
  • People-oriented and support reports to elevate performance
  • Experience growing engineers
  • Experience making collaboration with external teams successful
  • Solid architectural knowledge
  • Experience in designing, implementing and evolving complex distributed systems
  • Ability to spot areas where scalability and performance might be affected
  • Track and steer a project to successful and timely delivery

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of authentication protocols such as OAuth2, OIDC, SAML
  • Understanding of event-driven architectures, especially Apache Kafka

What the JD emphasized

  • secure every identity
  • identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI
  • Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era
  • builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence
  • do career-defining work
  • We're all in on this mission
  • easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers
  • make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world
  • modern approach to identity enables this Tier-Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation
  • Organizations team is expanding Auth0 to help B2B SaaS applications easily manage access for their own customers and partners, at scale
  • make it possible for enterprise SaaS users to log in with the right set of permissions within the right context, and for our B2B customers to onboard access for their customers easily
  • work is cross-cutting and always heavily customer driven
  • keen eye for good user experiences and enjoy solving hard problems at scale