Senior Engineering Manager
Okta · Bengaluru · 7–10 yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: Java
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About the role
Responsibilities:
- This key role involves building and leading a team of talented, passionate backend Java software engineers responsible for developing mission-critical and innovative identity and security products, specifically focusing on platform features for authentication and authorisation.
- This is an exciting opportunity to grow a team and deliver essential identity and security capabilities on Okta Secure Identity Platform.
- What you’ll be doing At a high level, you’ll be managing your team’s goals, contributing to product strategy and helping to develop your employees.
- More specifically, you will -
- Collaborate cross-functionally and across teams, with responsibility for the product, team health, and customer satisfaction.
- Contribute to defining the strategic direction (product & technical) and roadmap for the team.
- Ensure technical leadership is being provided to the engineers on the team in terms of scalable and maintainable systems.
- Ensure a high-quality bar through testing and testing automation.
- Participate in and enable key team processes to organize & deliver key projects with high business impact.
- Build a team for the long term, including creating a collaborative working environment, recruitment, and developing existing talent.
- Drive career management discussions, including setting expectations and removing blockers, and feedback and coaching opportunities.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years managing engineering teams, balancing new feature/product development and maintaining existing features.
- Experience in stakeholder management, including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback.
- Demonstrated ability to build teams from ground-up, managing performance, mentoring and coaching teams
- Demonstrated focus on delivering outcomes, balancing constraints and tight deadlines.
- 7-10 years of prior software development experience with Java or other backend technologies.
- While this role is a people management one, you’ll still need to bring relevant technical experience to ensure sound technical decision-making.
- Experience and strong opinions on SDLC with testing automation & release orchestration using gating feature flags & configuration mgmt, and CI / CD platforms.
- Demonstrable knowledge of secure web development fundamentals, fault-tolerant systems, and knowledge of cloud technologies.
- LI-Hybrid #P25299
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
Qualifications
- 3+ years managing engineering teams, balancing new feature/product development and maintaining existing features.
- Experience in stakeholder management, including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback.
- Demonstrated ability to build teams from ground-up, managing performance, mentoring and coaching teams
- Demonstrated focus on delivering outcomes, balancing constraints and tight deadlines.
- 7-10 years of prior software development experience with Java or other backend technologies.
- While this role is a people management one, you’ll still need to bring relevant technical experience to ensure sound technical decision-making.
- Experience and strong opinions on SDLC with testing automation & release orchestration using gating feature flags & configuration mgmt, and CI / CD platforms.
- Demonstrable knowledge of secure web development fundamentals, fault-tolerant systems, and knowledge of cloud technologies.
- LI-Hybrid #P25299 Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
Responsibilities
- This key role involves building and leading a team of talented, passionate backend Java software engineers responsible for developing mission-critical and innovative identity and security products, specifically focusing on platform features for authentication and authorisation.
- This is an exciting opportunity to grow a team and deliver essential identity and security capabilities on Okta Secure Identity Platform.
- What you’ll be doing At a high level, you’ll be managing your team’s goals
- contributing to product strategy and helping to develop your employees.
- More specifically, you will -
- Collaborate cross-functionally and across teams, with responsibility for the product, team health, and customer satisfaction.
- Contribute to defining the strategic direction (product & technical) and roadmap for the team.
- Ensure technical leadership is being provided to the engineers on the team in terms of scalable and maintainable systems.
- Ensure a high-quality bar through testing and testing automation.
- Participate in and enable key team processes to organize & deliver key projects with high business impact.
- Build a team for the long term, including creating a collaborative working environment, recruitment, and developing existing talent.
- Drive career management discussions, including setting expectations and removing blockers, and feedback and coaching opportunities.