Vice President, Engineering - Authentication

About the role

The Vice President, Engineering - Authentication role at Auth0 Product Unit is responsible for delivering seamless, secure, and scalable login experiences. The role involves leading a large, globally distributed engineering organization to meet customer and product needs, scaling the engineering team, mentoring and coaching managers, and working closely with Product & Design to build the next generation of Identity products.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Engineering managers, Directors, and SVP of Engineering to help scale the Engineering Organization.
• Lead, mentor, and coach a mix of new and seasoned engineering managers running widely distributed teams.
• Build the next generation of Identity products by working closely with Product & Design.
• Maintain high security, performance, and availability SLAs as the organization scales for enterprise customers handling billions of authentications.
• Ship new features with aggressive deadlines, measure 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.
• Monitor team structure and investment levels, providing recommendations for optimizations.
• Partner in a leading role with Program Management and Engineering leadership in roadmap planning.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in leading SaaS product engineering teams.
• 12+ years of experience in various elements of full-stack software development, including front-end, back-end, data, and insights, and hands-on coding experience.
• 3+ years of experience running or using large-scale infrastructure supporting a cloud service in a public cloud provider, preferably AWS and/or MS Azure.
• Background in Agentic experience, authentication, authorization, and/or Security is a big plus.
• Extensive experience using Agile and DevOps methodologies to build software services and associated infrastructure supporting monitoring, alerting, and tooling required to operate it.
• Deep expertise in securing cloud infrastructure (e.g., security monitoring, key-based authentication, role-based authorization, audit logging, and patching).
• Proven ability to earn respect, trust from people you work with and to mentor top technical talent.
• Technical leadership experience in design, implementation, and support of core back-end, front-end, customization, and database services that are highly reliable, flexible, and scalable.
• You set high standards and have demonstrated the ability to build and lead a high-performance team.
• Prior experience in a fast-paced and high-growth company and are comfortable with putting systems in place and adjusting and adapting when needed.
• Effective verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.) and security best practices.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and security principles.
• Experience with DevOps and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks effectively.

Skills

• Leadership and management skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and security principles.
• Experience with DevOps and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks effectively.

Benefits

At Okta, we offer competitive compensation, including a range of annual base salaries for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington. Additionally, we provide equity, bonuses, and comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, a flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between $310,000—$426,800 USD.

Schedule

This role is currently hybrid, with the option to work remotely or in the office.