Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
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. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
The Okta Privileged Access Management Team (PAM)
The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. .
The Software Engineering Manager
We are looking for a manager to lead the product development team behind this fast-growing product as we continue our mission to secure the internet by building a scalable, reliable product that customers love to use.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead a team of engineers responsible for building the backend, frontend for PAM features.
- You’ll lead the adoption of AI across your team’s software development workflows, integrating it thoughtfully to improve productivity, quality, and speed.
- Work closely with Product Management to develop and implement our product roadmap.
- Empower your teams to focus on usability, scale and reliability.
- Recruit great engineers to accelerate our work.
- Mentor, retain and develop engineers as they advance in their own careers.
- Establishing clear priorities, expectations, and accountability for individuals and team
- Driving the execution and delivery of product features with high quality, collaborating with cross-functional teams, System Architects, QA, and Documentation teams
What you’ll bring to the role
- Have managed software engineering teams with end-to-end ownership over their technical stack, development environment and production performance.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude, with the ability to integrate them effectively into day-to-day engineering workflows.
- Are excited to build an amazing product - and believe the best way to do so is by leading and empowering engineers.
- Are familiar with infrastructure tools such as AWS, GCP, Ansible, Terraform or Kubernetes.
- Have successfully built high-performing engineering teams which deliver their product “as a Service”.
- Have opinions on topics like feature flags, CI pipelines and technical debt.
- Are comfortable leading geographically distributed teams.
- Thrive on autonomy, and use it to get stuff done.
Required education and experience:
- 5+ years of experience building SaaS or Infrastructure software products as a software engineer or manager.
- 3+ years of experience being hands-on with Golang/Java/C++/C#
- Deep understanding of at least 1 major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- 2+ years of technical management experience.
- Bachelor's in CS, or equivalent
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Skills Required
- 5+ years building SaaS or Infrastructure software products as a software engineer or manager
- 2+ years of technical management experience
- 3+ years hands-on with Golang, Java, C++ or C#
- Deep understanding of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) and integrating them into workflows
- Familiarity with infrastructure tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Kubernetes
- Experience managing teams with end-to-end ownership of technical stack, development environment and production performance
- Proven ability to recruit, mentor, retain, and develop engineers
- Experience delivering products as a Service (SaaS operational delivery)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Okta Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Okta and has not been reviewed or approved by Okta.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, vision, mental-health support, and income protection, complemented by preventive care options and wellness resources. These elements indicate robust coverage for both routine needs and more complex situations.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and fertility and family‑building benefits. Caregiving resources and flexible arrangements help employees navigate family responsibilities.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, separate sick time, paid holidays, and a company Wellbeing Week provide multiple avenues for time away. This breadth supports rest, recovery, and work‑life balance.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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