Hiring: Vice President, Engineering - Authentication Company: Okta Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 23:13:17 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Agile, Auth0, Azure, Make, Okta, SaaS About the job Experience: •Supporting Your Well-Being •Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community •We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Required Skills: •Work closely with our Engineering managers, Directors, and SVP of Engineering to help scale our Engineering Organization to meet our customer and product needs. •Lead, mentor and coach a mix of new and seasoned engineering managers running widely distributed teams. •Work closely with Product & Design to build the next generation of Identity products. •Provide operational excellence and implement processes and policies that create efficiencies during a time of massive growth. •Maintain our high security, performance and availability SLAs as we rapidly scale for enterprise customers handling billions of authentications. •Lead teams that continuously ship new features with aggressive deadlines, measure the results, and iterate. •Redefine "Developer Experience" for the AI era by building the infrastructure that allows developers to deploy autonomous agents with machine-readable identity, scoped permissioning, and natural-language policy enforcement. •Continuously monitor team structure and investment levels providing recommendations for optimizations. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!