The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
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 Okta’s 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.
What they're looking for
- 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).