Senior Engineering Manager, Data Streaming Services (auth0)

Okta Okta · Enterprise · Chicago, IL +2 · SW Eng - Infrastructure-672

Okta is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Data Streaming Services to lead the evolution of their streaming data backbone across a multi-cloud footprint. This role will oversee multiple engineering teams, set the vision for streaming services, mentor teams, and ensure service uptime. The ideal candidate will have proven engineering leadership experience, strong technical and architectural acumen in scalable, distributed systems, and excellent project management skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a world-class team of teams. Oversee data streaming infrastructure and services that power our global platform across AWS and Azure.
  2. Own roadmap and execution. Partner with product and stakeholder teams to define the team's strategy and prioritized roadmap.
  3. Drive engineering excellence. Set high standards of quality, reliability, and operational robustness, championing best practices in software development, from code reviews to observability and incident management.
  4. Lead an automation-first culture. Reduce operational friction and ensure infrastructure is self-healing and code-defined. Draw efficiency from AI-assisted development.
  5. Act as a technical leader. Lead response on incidents for services under ownership and help teams navigate complex distributed systems failures.

Skills

Required

  • Proven engineering leadership, building and leading teams of teams.
  • Experience coaching Staff+ engineers and engineering managers.
  • Strong technical and architectural acumen.
  • Background in building scalable, distributed systems.
  • Comfortable participating in and guiding technical discussions.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Expertise in creating technical roadmaps, prioritizing effectively in an agile environment, and managing complex project dependencies.
  • Collaborative leadership style, adapted to remote ways of working.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to build strong relationships with stakeholders and inspire others.

Nice to have

  • Experience developing data-intensive applications in a modern programming language such as go, node.js, or Java.
  • 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), container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker, and observability tools such as Datadog.
  • Experience building reliable, high-availability platforms for enterprise SaaS applications.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI 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
  • Draw efficiency from AI-assisted development