Engineering Manager - Platform Migration Services (auth0)

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · SW Eng - Infrastructure-672

Okta is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Platform Migration Services team, focusing on building and leading a team to develop critical, data-driven services for customer environment migrations. The role requires a blend of people leadership and technical expertise in scalable, distributed systems, with a focus on driving engineering excellence and cross-functional collaboration. While the company mentions AI as a key area, this specific role is centered on infrastructure and migration services, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and lead a world-class team. You will recruit, mentor, and support a team of skilled engineers, fostering a strong, collaborative culture and keeping the team motivated and engaged.
  2. Own the roadmap and execution. You will partner with product and stakeholder teams to define the team's strategy and roadmap. You'll be responsible for prioritizing work and ensuring the team consistently delivers high-quality, reliable services.
  3. Drive engineering excellence. You will hold the team to a high standard of quality, reliability, and operational robustness, championing best practices in software development, from code reviews to incident management.
  4. Master cross-functional collaboration. You will serve as the key interface between your team and stakeholders across product, engineering, and customer service, ensuring alignment and smooth execution on complex, cross-team initiatives.

Skills

Required

  • Proven engineering leadership
  • Experience as an Engineering Manager or a Tech Lead with a strong desire to focus on people management
  • Coaching and developing engineers
  • Providing thoughtful feedback
  • Guiding career growth
  • Building scalable, distributed systems
  • Guiding technical discussions
  • Creating technical roadmaps
  • Prioritizing effectively in an agile environment
  • Managing complex project dependencies
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Nice to have

  • Proficiency in Golang
  • Experience with data-intensive applications
  • Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB
  • Experience with distributed streaming platforms like Kafka
  • Familiarity with concepts in the IAM (Identity and Access Management) domain
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure)
  • Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker

What the JD emphasized

  • build and hire for this team
  • hands-on when needed
  • willingness to get hands-on with code is essential