Requirements

- The ideal candidate is passionate about software quality and architecture, a self-starter, intellectually curious, and brings deep experience with performance testing, load testing frameworks, dataset generation, performance analysis, monitoring tooling, and chaos engineering
- Experienced in stakeholder management including alignment, prioritization, communication, and receiving and incorporating feedback
- Adaptable to changing requirements with the ability to manage a team through a pivot in priorities
- Prior management experience of a globally diverse team
- Experience designing or significantly improving load testing frameworks (e.g. k6, Gatling, Locust, or similar) — including extensibility, test data management, and CI/CD integration
- Hands‑on experience with test dataset generation strategies, including synthetic data generation, data masking/anonymization of production data, and building datasets that reflect realistic load distributions
- Experience using APM tools, observability tools, or prior experience analyzing distributed systems performance bottlenecks
- Experience with software architecture across the entire stack (design and implementation), including:
- Understanding of microservices
- Cloud Infrastructure experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Datastores (SQL, NoSQL, Key/Value)
- Containers (Docker, K8s)
- Solid understanding of the JavaScript ecosystem (NodeJS and/or TypeScript)
- Experience with Chaos Engineering tooling (e.g. Chaos Toolkit, Gremlin, AWS, FIS, etc.)
- Experience with Cloud‑based Infrastructure as a Service (especially AWS)

What the job involves

- Reporting to the Director of Quality & Performance,



this role as Engineering Manager of Performance & Resilience will drive performance and resiliency improvements for the Auth0 product at Okta
- Here you'll be working with some of the most advanced technology in the space, helping to streamline and secure billions of access requests a year
- In this role, you will work closely with architects, platform team members, and product engineers to build the testing infrastructure that keeps Auth0 performant at scale — including the frameworks, tooling, and realistic datasets that make that testing meaningful
- Collaborate with architects, tech lead, product owners, security and operations engineers to implement best practices related to performance and resiliency
- Communicate and organize cross‑team projects with high business impact
- Contribute to defining the strategic direction and roadmap for the team
- Own the evolution of the team's load testing framework — driving improvements in modularity, reusability, scalability, and developer experience so the framework can support the breadth of Auth0's services
- Lead the strategy and execution for test dataset generation, ensuring load and performance tests use realistic, representative data that accurately reflects production traffic patterns and user behaviors
- Use existing monitoring tools to identify problems and resolve and/or escalateto service teams
- Develop backend frameworks and tools for the entire engineering organization to use at scale
- Participate in the incident RCA process to continuously improve how we test
- Provide technical guidance to engineers on the performance team within the quality domain
- Manage a global team including setting expectations, removing blockers, creating a collaborative working setting, hiring, and providing coaching and career development

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📌 Engineering Manager, Performance & Resilience (Auth0) (Toronto)
🏢 Okta
📍 Toronto