Engineering Manager, Okta Access Gateway

Opportunity

What you’ll do

• Lead, mentor, develop, and hire engineers while building an inclusive, high-performance team.
• Own delivery of roadmap initiatives and balance feature speed, technical debt, and software quality.
• Establish agile delivery cadences, estimates, milestones, and stakeholder communications.
• Champion security, operational rigor, high availability, and performance benchmarking for gateway appliances.
• Partner with product, architecture, security, quality, and UX teams on roadmaps and requirements.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, system designs, and threat modeling; guide gateway modernization, containerization, deployment automation, and Okta Identity Cloud integration.

What you’ll bring

• At least 2 years formally managing software engineering teams, or 4+ years as a hands-on Lead or Staff Engineer delivering complex, multi-engineer projects.
• At least 8 years designing and operating enterprise-scale distributed systems or infrastructure products.
• Strong server-side background in Java/Spring Boot, Go, or C/C++, with knowledge of concurrency, caching, high throughput, and asynchronous processing.
• Understanding of network architecture, TLS/SSL, reverse proxies/gateways, HTTP headers, DNS, and AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience managing agile delivery, CI/CD automation, and cross-functional dependencies across distributed teams.
• Strong communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to technical and executive stakeholders.
• IAM protocols, reverse proxies, API gateways, Linux appliances, Zero Trust, enterprise integrations, and hybrid/distributed team experience are bonuses.

Compensation

• Annual base salary in Canada is CAD $168,000–$231,000; actual pay depends on qualifications and experience.
• Equity, bonus, health and dental coverage, RRSP matching, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave may be offered under applicable plans.

Workplace

• The position is identified as being in Toronto. The posting describes an in-person onboarding experience but does not specify the regular work arrangement.