# Senior Software Engineer, Observability

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147,000-$202,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organisations to safely embrace this new era.

The Auth0 Platform Observability team owns the observability tooling that monitors the Auth0 Platform, and we are looking for an Observability Engineer to help ensure that our Product and Platform Engineers can monitor and observe our platform while continuing to rapidly ship software that our customers love.

## Responsibilities:

- Champion observability best practices, acting as an educator to correct anti-patterns and teach other engineering teams how to build robust, standardised instrumentation.

- Run services in production environments.

- Contribute to designing services for high growth and high availability.

- Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services.

- Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.

- Troubleshoot performance issues and operational issues.

- Automate operational tasks and improve scripts.

- Assist with and provide feedback for performance testing and automation.

- Participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify critical gaps in current telemetry tooling.

- Act as a technical leader, driving cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards across the broader engineering organisation.

## Qualifications:

- 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience.

- Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

- Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem (Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking).

- Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang.

- Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

- Data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks.

- Deep understanding of microservice architecture and best practices.

- Experience in coaching and mentoring more junior engineers.

- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and collaborate seamlessly with multiple engineering teams.

- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.

The 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: $147,000-$202,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- cloud infrastructure
- Datadog ecosystem
- Node.js
- Golang
- containerisation
- orchestration tools
- microservice architecture
- OpenTelemetry

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