Technical Engineering Manager - Golang
Okta
Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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.
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Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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..
Auth0
Auth0 is an easy to implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.
Role: Engineering Manager
You GET developers! You understand their workflows, their pain points, and what makes a library delightful to use.
We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for our developer tools, SDKs and Quickstarts. You will combine your technical background with a passion for people management to drive our Developer Experience (DX) strategy forward. Working cross-functionally, you will be the steward of our ecosystem, ensuring our technology is intuitive, accessible, and high-quality. The key qualifications for this role are software engineering expertise, empathy, and the ability to foster a self-directed team.
What you will be doing:
- Lead and Grow: Manage and mentor a high-performing team of engineers responsible for the Auth0 CLI, Terraform Provider, and SDKs.
- Technical Direction: collaborative with engineers on architectural decisions, RFCs, and code reviews to ensure our tools are robust, idiomatic, and secure.
- Open Source Stewardship: Define and enforce high standards for our open source repositories, ensuring rigorous code quality, automated release pipelines, and responsive issue triage.
- People Development: Grow engineers’ technical skills and impact through regular 1:1s, coaching, actionable feedback, and career advocacy.
- Roadmap Execution: Partner with Product Management to balance new features for our developer tools with critical maintenance and technical debt.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with Core Engineering and Security teams to ensure our libraries seamlessly support the latest platform capabilities.
- Champion Quality: Act as the steward for Developer Experience (DX), ensuring our tools and documentation set the industry standard for ease of use.
- Operational Excellence: Establish systems to ensure high availability and predictability of deliverables across multiple package managers and registries.
- Hiring: Lead the recruitment of engineers who combine strong backend expertise (Go, Node.js) with genuine developer empathy.
- Culture: Cultivate a team environment of psychological safety, technical curiosity, and connection to the broader developer community.
You are a good fit if you:
- Engineering Leadership: Demonstrated success as an Engineering Manager fostering healthy, collaborative, and high-performing teams.
- Technical Expertise: Strong technical background with hands-on expertise in Go and Node.js.
- Infrastructure as Code: Deep experience with Terraform, specifically regarding Provider design, resource lifecycle management, and best practices.
- Domain Experience: Experience designing and building developer-facing products like SDKs, libraries, Terraform providers, or CLIs (including a strong understanding of versioning strategies).
- Open Source Fluency: Active participation in the Open Source community, with a clear understanding of maintainership, semantic versioning, and community engagement.
- Coaching: A track record of growing engineers' skills and careers through coaching, actionable feedback, and performance management.
- Distributed Work: Experience leading teams in a geographically distributed, asynchronous environment.
- Operational Rigor: Proficiency with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions), release automation, and software testing best practices.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills; you can effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both engineers and product stakeholders.
- Navigating Ambiguity: You thrive with a high level of self-direction and can drive value even when requirements are not fully defined.
Bonus points for:
We do not expect you to be an expert in everything below, only that you can learn the less familiar fast:
- Identity Knowledge: Familiarity with authentication and authorization protocols (e.g., OAuth2, OIDC, SAML).
- Cross-Stack Proficiency: Deep experience in both Go and Node.js ecosystems (versus just one).
- Public Presence: A history of technical writing, blogging, or speaking at conferences to advocate for developer tools.
- Terraform Expertise: Specific experience building custom Terraform Providers.
- Community Leadership: Experience managing or moderating large developer communities or forums.
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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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
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