Okta

Technology

EngineeringManager,Performance&Resilience(Auth0)

CA$175–245k ~AI est. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Engineering Manager, Performance & Resilience (Auth0) at Okta. Skills: Performance testing, Load testing, Chaos engineering, Software architecture. Drive performance and resiliency improvements. Build testing infrastructure”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience designing or improving load testing frameworks, Hands-on experience with test dataset generation, Experience using APM tools, Experience with software architecture, Cloud Infrastructure experience, Datastores experience, Containers experience, Solid understanding of JavaScript ecosystem, Experience with Chaos Engineering tooling, Experience with Cloud-based IaaS

Nice to Have

Experience with k6, Gatling, Locust, or similar, Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Experience with SQL, NoSQL, Key/Value, Experience with Docker, K8s, Experience with NodeJS and/or TypeScript, Experience with Chaos Toolkit, Gremlin, AWS, FIS, Experience with AWS

What You'll Do.

Drive performance and resiliency improvements

Build testing infrastructure

Streamline access requests

Secure billions of access requests

Implement best practices

Communicate cross-team projects

Organize cross-team projects

Define strategic direction

Define roadmap for team

Own load testing framework evolution

Drive framework improvements

Support breadth of Auth0 services

Lead test dataset generation strategy

Ensure realistic test data

Escalate to service teams

Develop backend frameworks

Develop backend tools

Participate in incident RCA process

Provide technical guidance

Create collaborative environment

Provide career development

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Architects; Platform team members; Product engineers; Tech lead; Product owners; Security engineers; Operations engineers; Global team

Communication Scope

Communication

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Engineering Opportunity Reporting to the Director of Quality & Performance, this role as Engineering Manager of Performance & Resilience will drive performance and resiliency improvements for the Auth0 product at Okta. Here you'll be working with some of the most advanced technology in the space, helping to streamline and secure billions of access requests a year. In this role, you will work closely with architects, platform team members, and product engineers to build the testing infrastructure that keeps Auth0 performant at scale — including the frameworks, tooling, and realistic datasets that make that testing meaningful. The ideal candidate is passionate about software quality and architecture, a self-starter, intellectually curious, and brings deep experience with performance testing, load testing frameworks, dataset generation, performance analysis, monitoring tooling, and chaos engineering. What you’ll be doing Collaborate with architects, tech lead, product owners, security and operations engineers to implement best practices related to performance and resiliency Communicate and organize cross-team projects with high business impact Contribute to defining the strategic direction and roadmap for the team Own the evolution of the team's load testing framework — driving improvements in modularity, reusability, scalability, and developer experience so the framework can support the breadth of Auth0's services Lead the strategy and execution for test

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