Vice President, Engineering - Authentication | Okta

Okta Inc

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Bellevue, WA · Chicago, IL Posted 24 days ago $310,000–$426,800 / year
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This role $368k
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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $149,375–$195,700 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $368k versus about $173k for comparable roles.

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About Okta Inc

Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[

Okta Inc currently has 145 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $194,000–$267,000 across 145 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR

As Vice President of Engineering for the Authentication team at Auth0, you will lead a large, globally distributed engineering organization responsible for delivering seamless and secure login experiences. You will work closely with engineering managers, directors, and the SVP to scale the engineering organization, mentor teams, and build next-generation identity products in collaboration with Product & Design. Your role includes maintaining high security standards while rapidly scaling for enterprise customers handling billions of authentications daily. Key responsibilities involve hands-on coding experience across full-stack development, securing cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure, and implementing DevOps methodologies to ensure operational excellence. You will redefine developer experiences for the AI era by building secure frameworks for autonomous agents. This position requires extensive leadership in technical design, implementation, and support of scalable services, as well as a background in authentication and authorization.

Skills

AWS Azure Agile DevOps CI/CD Python JavaScript SQL PostgreSQL Kubernetes Docker Terraform Prometheus Grafana OAuth OpenID Connect Zero Trust Role-Based Access Control Security Monitoring

What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor engineering managers to scale the organization for customer needs.
  • Build next-generation Identity products by closely collaborating with Product & Design teams.
  • Ensure high security, performance, and availability SLAs while scaling for enterprise customers.
  • Continuously ship new features under aggressive deadlines and measure results for iteration.
  • Redefine Developer Experience in the AI era by building secure infrastructure for autonomous agents.
  • Monitor team structure and investment levels to provide recommendations for optimizations.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience leading SaaS product engineering teams.
  • Extensive full-stack software development background with hands-on coding skills.
  • 3+ years managing large-scale cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or Azure.
  • Deep expertise in securing cloud infrastructure and implementing security measures.
  • Proven ability to mentor technical talent and build high-performance teams.
  • Experience using Agile and DevOps methodologies for software service delivery.

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