Senior Site Reliability Engineer - EPG

Okta is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its Emerging Products Group (EPG). The successful candidate will help build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that customers can trust.

Reliability & Operations

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
• Participate in a global on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.
• Participate in incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
• Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Ensure all infrastructure and operational practices adhere to strict FedRAMP compliance and security mandates, maintaining continuous audit readiness.
• Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.

Engineering & Automation

• Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
• Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering.
• Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
• Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities.
• Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security.

Collaboration & Technical Contribution

• Support complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Guide engineers in adopting operational best practices and reliability engineering principles.
• Collaborate, mentor, and assist junior and mid-level engineers on the team, providing code reviews, operational guidance, and promoting best practices.
• Participate in architecture design and operational decisions through data-driven recommendations and engineering expertise.
• Drive projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership.

Innovation

• Explore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency, incident response, troubleshooting, and automation.
• Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies to reduce toil and improve engineering productivity.

Our Tech Stack

• Infrastructure/Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Terraform, Helm, Git, ArgoCD, GitOps
• Programming: Golang, Python, Rust
• Observability: Datadog, Splunk, Graphana
• Data Stores: PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Snowflake