Senior Engineering Manager, SDET - Okta Identity Governance (OIG)

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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. Senior Engineering Manager, SDET — Okta Identity Governance (OIG) 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 Okta Identity Governance Team Okta Identity Governance (OIG) is Okta's Identity Governance and Administration solution, responsible for some of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how people request access, how approvers grant it, how entitlements are enforced, and how organizations prove to auditors that only the right people have the right access. OIG is the leading contributor to Okta's new product bookings, and it runs inside some of the largest enterprises in the world — the kind of accounts where a single tenant carries hundreds of thousands of identities across thousands of applications. Quality here is a compliance bar, not just a user experience one. When a governance product has a defect, a company can stay over-provisioned on access it believes it revoked, or hand an auditor evidence that isn't true. The Senior Engineering Manager, SDET Opportunity As Senior Engineering Manager, SDET, you'll own the quality strategy for OIG and lead the quality engineers and SDETs behind it — 10 scrum teams, with engineers in Canada, the US, and India. You'll set how we test governance at enterprise scale — long-running certification campaigns, tenants with millions of entitlements, dozens of third-party connectors, and audit records that must be provably correct. You'll run multiple workstreams at once, delegate tactical decisions while staying close enough to dive in, and hold a quality position with engineering and product peers as a partner rather than a gatekeeper. What You'll Be Doing Own the quality strategy for OIG — test approach, coverage model, automation architecture, environments, and release readiness — aligned to the pillar's goals Lead, grow, and retain a distributed team of quality engineers and SDETs; own team calibration and promotion planning, and drive recruiting as hiring manager Coach engineers on growth with timely, actionable feedback, and delegate without creating bottlenecks or hero culture Drive automation strategy across API, integration, and UI layers, converting manual regression into deterministic CI/CD gates Own the quality signal — escaped defects, coverage, flaky rate, time-to-detect — and use it to drive release decisions Lead scale and data-integrity testing for large-tenant campaigns, bulk entitlement operations, and high-volume imports Embed quality engineers into architecture and design reviews so testability and risk analysis shape the product early Track your team's investment mix, manage expectations across workstreams, and keep the team healthy and out of burnout Partner with engineering, product, design, docs, and support; turn escaped defects and RCAs into durable automated coverage What You'll Bring To The Role 10+ years in quality or test engineering, or software engineering with a quality focus, shipping enterprise cloud software 4+ years managing engineers, including distributed teams and more than one workstream at a time A track record of owning quality strategy for