Okta
Senior Director, Quality Engineering – Performance, Scalability & Reliability
San Francisco, California · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$312k-$429kDetected 4 days ago
Distributed SystemsSQLNoSQLAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringgRPCOAuthMachine LearningAgentic AINegotiationJMeterLoad TestingTCP/IPLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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Level II$108,4722 entries
Level III$136,3443 entries
Level IV$164,2374 entries
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DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
- Senior Director, Quality Engineering - Performance, Scalability & Reliability Location: San Francisco, CA | San Jose, CA Team: Product & Engineering Type: Full-Time About Okta Okta is the World's Identity Company.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior engineering leaders and principal architects, evaluating system designs, microservices, database topologies, and cloud infrastructure for performance bottlenecks and failure modes.
- Drive predictive capacity planning models that align infrastructure provisioning and cloud spend with customer growth, traffic spikes, and high-volume identity events (e.g., Cyber Monday, election cycles, mega-enterprise rollouts).
- Architecture & Scalability Guidance: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior engineering leaders and principal architects, evaluating system designs, microservices, database topologies, and cloud infrastructure for performance bottlenecks and failure modes.
- Capacity Planning & Cost Efficiency: Drive predictive capacity planning models that align infrastructure provisioning and cloud spend with customer growth, traffic spikes, and high-volume identity events (e.g., Cyber Monday, election cycles, mega-enterprise rollouts).
- Incident Post-Mortems & Resilience: Partner with SRE and Incident Management to analyze critical system outages and performance degradations, driving root-cause analysis (RCA) and translating lessons learned into automated performance test suites.
- Team Building & Talent Mentorship: Lead, grow, and empower a world-class organization of performance engineers, tool developers, and engineering managers.
- Partner with SRE and Incident Management to analyze critical system outages and performance degradations, driving root-cause analysis (RCA) and translating lessons learned into automated performance test suites.
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, or Infrastructure, with 8+ years in direct engineering management/leadership roles.
- Track record leading high-performing performance engineering, scalability, or SRE organizations at a multi-tenant, hyper-scale SaaS or Cloud infrastructure company.
- Deep technical expertise in cloud architectures (AWS, GCP), distributed systems, microservices, containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), and databases (SQL, NoSQL, Caching architectures).
- Hands-on proficiency with performance testing tools and frameworks (e.g., JMeter, Locust, k6, Gatling, Distributed Load Generation) and APM/Observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic).
- Proven track record of managing multi-million dollar cloud infrastructure efficiency initiatives and capacity planning models.
- Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong domain understanding of API performance, rate limiting, token validation, network protocols (HTTP/2, gRPC, TLS), and identity protocols (SAML, OAuth2, OIDC).
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, and cross-functional executive alignment skills.
Nice to have
- Prior experience in the Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cyber Security, or mission-critical enterprise SaaS domain.
- Experience integrating Chaos Engineering practices (e.g., Gremlin, Chaos Mesh) into production and staging pipelines.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- The Okta Experience
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
Skills
- Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
- Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
- This is an opportunity to do career-defining work.
- Senior Director, Quality Engineering - Performance, Scalability & Reliability
- San Francisco, CA | San Jose, CA
- Product & Engineering
- Okta is the World's Identity Company.
- Okta's top priority is to provide a reliable, scalable, and secure platform.
- Position Overview
Compensation
- The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:
Benefits
- Use AI to improve test coverage, simulate real-world use cases and elevate the quality of Testing process and tools with in Okta
Company info
- We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
- Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable companies to protect the identities of their applicants, employees, and customers, while providing seamless access from any device, anywhere.
- Thousands of customers, including Adobe, JetBlue, and Farmers Insurance, trust Okta to help them work faster, boost efficiency, and stay secure.
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