# Senior Engineering Manager, Data Streaming Services (Auth0)

**Company**: Auth0
**Location**: Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $207,000-$284,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okta/jobs/7719329
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ded9d7ff-8aa

## Description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human\n\nIdentity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. As a Senior Engineering Manager, Data Streaming Services at Auth0, you will lead the evolution of our streaming data backbone across a multi-cloud footprint. You will oversee multiple engineering teams dedicated to making data streaming seamless, reliable, and high-performance.\n\nThis is a "manager of managers" role requiring a blend of strategic foresight, execution rigor, and technical grit. You will set the vision for our streaming services, mentor high-performing teams, and take accountability for our service uptime guarantees.\n\n**Key Responsibilities:**\n\n* Lead a world-class team of teams. Oversee data streaming infrastructure and services that power our global platform across AWS and Azure.\n* Own roadmap and execution. Partner with product and stakeholder teams to define the team's strategy and prioritized roadmap.\n* Drive engineering excellence. Set high standards of quality, reliability, and operational robustness, championing best practices in software development, from code reviews to observability and incident management.\n* Lead an automation-first culture. Reduce operational friction and ensure infrastructure is self-healing and code-defined. Draw efficiency from AI-assisted development.\n* Act as a technical leader. Lead response on incidents for services under ownership and help teams navigate complex distributed systems failures.\n\n**Requirements:**\n\n* Proven engineering leadership, building and leading teams of teams. Experience coaching Staff+ engineers and engineering managers.\n* Strong technical and architectural acumen. Background in building scalable, distributed systems. Comfortable participating in and guiding technical discussions.\n* Strong project management skills. Expertise in creating technical roadmaps, prioritizing effectively in an agile environment, and managing complex project dependencies.\n* Collaborative leadership style, adapted to remote ways of working. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to build strong relationships with stakeholders and inspire others.\n\n**Bonus Points:**\n\n* Experience developing data-intensive applications in a modern programming language such as go, node.js, or Java.\n* Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.\n* Experience with distributed streaming platforms like Kafka.\n* Familiarity with concepts in the IAM (Identity and Access Management) domain.\n* Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure), container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker, and observability tools such as Datadog.\n* Experience building reliable, high-availability platforms for enterprise SaaS applications.

## Skills

### Required
- engineering leadership
- technical and architectural acumen
- project management skills
- collaborative leadership style
- data-intensive applications
- databases
- distributed streaming platforms
- IAM domain
- cloud providers
- container technologies
- observability tools

### Nice to have
- go
- node.js
- Java
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Kafka
- AWS
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Datadog