Engineering Manager, Okta Access Gateway
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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. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.
Enterprises run on a mix of modern cloud services and mission-critical on-premises systems (such as Oracle E-Business Suite SAP PeopleSoft and custom legacy web apps). Okta Access Gateway (OAG) solves the enterprise hybrid cloud challenge by extending Oktas cloud identity Adaptive MFA and Zero Trust security policies to on-premises and legacy applications without requiring custom code changes or traditional VPNs.
As the Engineering Manager for Okta Access Gateway in Toronto you will lead and grow a team of software engineers building the next generation of our hybrid access and gateway infrastructure. You will partner closely with Product Management Architecture Security and Quality teams to deliver high-throughput mission-critical security software deployed across multi-cloud and enterprise datacenters globally.
- Lead mentor and empower an engineering team fostering an inclusive high-performance and psychologically safe engineering culture.
- Drive career progression goal setting regular 1:1s and continuous feedback to help engineers grow their technical and leadership skills.
- Attract interview and hire diverse engineering talent to scale Oktas engineering presence in Toronto.
- Own the end-to-end execution and delivery of key product roadmap initiatives balancing feature velocity technical debt and software quality.
- Establish predictable agile delivery cadences (Scrum/Kanban) driving accurate scope estimation milestone tracking and stakeholder communication.
- Champion operational rigor security standards high availability and performance benchmarking for customer-deployed gateway appliances.
- Partner closely with Product Managers Technical Architects and UX designers to define technical roadmaps and product requirements.
- Participate in architectural reviews system design proposals and threat modeling without micromanaging day-to-day code implementation.
- Guide the team in modernizing gateway capabilities containerization deployment automation and seamless integration with the core Okta Identity Cloud.
- Engineering Leadership: 2 years of experience formally managing software engineering teams (or 4 years as a hands-on Lead / Staff Engineer leading complex multi-engineer projects to delivery).
- Technical Background: 8 years of total software engineering experience designing and operating enterprise-scale distributed systems or infrastructure products.
- Enterprise Stack Experience: Strong background in server-side technologies (e.g. Java / Spring Boot Go or C/C) and distributed systems concepts (concurrency caching high throughput and asynchronous processing).
- Security & Networking Acumen: Solid understanding of network architecture TLS/SSL reverse proxies/gateways HTTP headers DNS and cloud environments (AWS Azure or GCP).
- Execution & Agile Rigor: Proven track record of managing agile delivery CI/CD automation pipelines and cross-functional dependencies across distributed teams.
- Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical trade-offs to both technical and executive stakeholders.
- Deep knowledge of Identity & Access Management (IAM) and authentication protocols: SAML 2.0 OAuth 2.0 / OIDC Kerberos / IWA Header-Based Auth and FIDO2 / WebAuthn.
- Experience building or operating Reverse Proxies (NGINX / Envoy / HAProxy) API gateways or Linux-based virtual appliances (OVA / AMI / VHD / Containers).
- Experience with Zero Trust network access (ZTNA) or enterprise hybrid integrations (Oracle SAP IBM Microsoft).
- Experience building or scaling engineering teams in a hybrid/distributed model.
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills qualifications and addition Okta offers equity (where applicable) bonus and benefits including health dental and vision insurance RRSP with a match healthcare spending telemedicine and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$168000 - $231000 CAD
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