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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.\nThis is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.\nGet to know Okta\nOkta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology-anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. \nAt Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box, we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. \nJoin our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you. \nThe Engineering Opportunity\nWe are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely.\nThis role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a key contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.\nThe ideal candidate exemplifies the philosophy of \"if you have to do it more than once, automate it\" and possesses a strong passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and software engineering.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nReliability & Operations\nDesign, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.\nParticipate in a global on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.\nParticipate in incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.\nDefine, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.\nPartner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.\nEnsure all infrastructure 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mentor, and assist junior and mid-level engineers on the team, providing code reviews, operational guidance, and promoting best practices.\nParticipate in architecture design and operational decisions through data-driven recommendations and engineering expertise.\nDrive projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership.\nInnovation\nExplore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency, incident response, troubleshooting, and automation.\nIdentify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies to reduce toil and improve engineering productivity.\nOur Tech Stack\nInfrastructure/Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Terraform, Helm, Git, ArgoCD, GitOps\nProgramming: Golang, Python, Rust\nObservability: Datadog, Splunk, Graphana\nData Stores: PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Snowflake\nWhat We Are Looking For\nTechnical Excellence\nStrong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.\nDeep expertise with Linux and Kubernetes in production environments.\nExperience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.\nExtensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.\nStrong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.\nExperience building automation and internal engineering platforms.\nExperience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.\nStrong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management.\nExperience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.\nExperience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.\nOperational Excellence\nStrong expertise operating customer-facing production systems subject to SLA\nExperience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.\nDeep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.\nStrong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.\nProven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.\nFederal Eligibility Requirements\nThis role supports US FedRAMP projects and requires the employee to be a US Person (US Citizen or Green Card Holder) to meet FedRAMP compliance and security clearance standards.\nSecurity & Compliance\nUnderstanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.\nExperience implementing operational controls, compliance standards (e.g., FedRAMP, SOC2, HIPAA), and best practices in highly regulated or security-sensitive government cloud environments is highly preferred.\nLeadership\nDemonstrated success contributing to complex engineering initiatives.\nStrong collaboration and communication skills.\nExperience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple timezones and cultures.\nExperience collaborating with engineers and contributing to technical capabilities within an organization.\nAbility to influence technical direction through expertise, partnership, and execution.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience operating SaaS platforms serving large-scale customer workloads.\nExperience working within Kubernetes-based microservices environments.\nExperience supporting globally distributed production environments.\nExperience with GitOps and ArgoCD.\nExperience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling or automation workflows. \nWhat you can look forward to as an Okta employee!\nAmazing Benefits\nMaking a Social Impact\nFostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta \nOkta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Oktatoday! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.\nOkta is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use thisForm to request an accommodation.\nOkta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.\nP12776_3577800\nBelow is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us. \nThe annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:\n$165,000—$226,600 USD\nBelow is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us. \nThe 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:\n$147,000—$202,000 USD\nThe Okta Experience\nSupporting Your Well-Being \nDriving Social Impact \nDeveloping Talent and Fostering Connection + Community\nWe are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.\nOkta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. 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