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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.\nPosition Overview:\nWe are seeking a highly technical Staff Observability Site Reliability Engineer with a specialty in Splunk to own and evolve our Splunk ecosystem. In this role, you will move beyond simple monitoring to delivering a world class, comprehensive, scalable Observability Platform that enables our SRE teams and business partners. You will treat infrastructure as code -utilizing Terraform and strong coding proficiency in Go, Python, or Ruby -to automate the deployment of agents and collectors across complex distributed systems.\nKey Responsibilities\nAutomated Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.\nSplunk Engineering: Optimize the collection, processing, and storage of log data to ensure high reliability and low latency of our Splunk services\nIncident Response: Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews to drive systemic improvements and \"observability-driven development.\"\nAutomation: Eliminate \"toil\" by automating the deployment and scaling of observability agents and collectors.\nRequired Skills & Experience (The Essentials)\nLog Management: Minimum 5+ Experience scaling and managing Splunk Cloud at scale (1000+ SVCs), including Workload Management (WLM) and HEC optimization.Visualization: Expertise in creating intuitive, actionable Splunk dashboards that correlate data across multiple sources.\nSRE Mindset: Minimum 5+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role with a focus on high-availability systems.\nProgramming Proficiency: Strong coding skills in SPL, Go for building internal tools and automating workflows.\n Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).\nProblem Solving: A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks.\nBonus Skills (The \"Nice-to-Haves\")\n Telemetry Standards: Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.\nCharge-back app: Experience in implementing Splunk charge-back app for usage reporting \nCloud Platforms: Experience managing observability native tools within AWS or GCP.\nAdditional requirements:\nThis position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.\nThis person must attend in person onboarding in our San Francisco/Chicago office the first week of employment. \nP14596_3372199\nThe annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:\n$194,000—$267,000 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$174,000—$238,000 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. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.\nIf reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.\nNotice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. 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