Manager, Engineering

Okta · Bengaluru · 5+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: AWS, Ansible, Azure, C#, C++, GCP, Golang, Java, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- 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
Qualifications:
- 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 #LI-Hybrid P24963_3467444
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

Qualifications

- 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 #LI-Hybrid P24963_3467444
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

Responsibilities

- 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

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