Sr. Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. 

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to work within our Customer Identity Cloud Site Reliability subdomain and facilitate the work of our engineers. The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about operations, infrastructure, and not intimidated by cross-organization coordination and collaboration.

You will:

• Build and lead a healthy, inclusive, collaborative team rooted in the opportunities they’re creating for customers
• Ensure each member of the team is deepening their skills through coaching, training, and mentoring
• Partner with our product management team to take in requirements from our internal and external customers and turn them into achievable goals for the team
• Have the opportunity to gain a great understanding and context about how Auth0 works and learn more about security protocols and how to build reliable, highly available systems

Required Qualifications:

• U.S person Status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee)*
• Have 3+ years of engineering management experience 
• Experience leading a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 
• Experience with cloud native operations including Kubernetes, Mongo Atlas, etc
• Are skilled at coaching teammates in all phases of their career and have experience providing focus to teams to enable them to achieve their goals
• Have a technical background and can help a team evaluate trade-offs during design and development
• Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results
• Are a great communicator and communication facilitator and like to lead by example
• Are comfortable working with a team based in different regions/times zones as well as with individuals who work at different times of day to accommodate their diverse lives

*This position requires access to controlled unclassified information or other sensitive government data. As a condition of employment for this person, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

Extra Points:

• Passion for working on systems that are highly reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Incident Response Management, either as an Incident Responder or Incident Commander
• Understand regulations and laws such as HIPAA, SOC2, FedRAMP, PCI, and GDPR

We do not expect you to be an expert in any or all of the above, only that you are interested in learning and growing your knowledge to understand the tasks that are assigned to you and the team.

Okta’s Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company’s actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It’s our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.          
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

 

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and visio