Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) is an easy to implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform. Basically, we make everyone’s login box awesome. If you are a problem solver who wants to make this login experience even better, then look no further - Okta CIC IAM Authentication domain is where you want to be. Our domain’s mission is to provide a simple, secure, standards-compliant, and delightful authentication experience for both end users and developers. We work with NodeJS, React, Postgres/MongoDB databases, and our services run on both AWS and Azure. Our technology radar continues to try, adopt, and re-visit various technologies and is a proponent of using the right tools for the job.
You will:- Lead and grow a healthy, inclusive, collaborative team rooted in the opportunities they create for customers.
- Ensure each team member deepens their skills through coaching, training, and mentoring.
- Work with product and design to build the roadmap for Okta CIC. This involves talking to engineers, other teams, and various stakeholders within the company.
- Review your team’s work to meet high-performance standards.
- As required, work on relevant stories, tasks, and bugs from your team’s backlog.
- Tie every piece of work back to the mission of making the internet safer and the business value of making it easier for companies to solve Auth.
- Have the opportunity to gain a great understanding and context about how Okta CIC works and learn more about security protocols and how to build reliable, highly available systems.
- Have experience leading a backend API development team.
- Skilled at coaching teammates in all phases of their careers.
- Experience providing focus to teams to enable them to achieve their goals.
- Hands-on who can help a team evaluate trade-offs during various SDLC phases.
- Enjoy working in an iterative development environment.
- Can add value to a conversation even when you are not familiar with the entire context.
- Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results.
- Like to lead by example.
- Are a great communicator and communication facilitator.
- US person Status (eg. US Citizen, National Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee)
Bonus points if you:
- Experience working on cloud-native technologies with AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
- Experience managing teams developing features that scale.
- Experience with native app development, either managing or developing.
- 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.
*This position requires access to controlled unclassified information or other sensitive government data. As a condition of employment for this position, 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 upon hire.
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