# Staff Site Reliability Engineer (FedRAMP)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $194,000-$267,000 USD per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okta/jobs/8064877?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_95d67068-bd1

## Description

We're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, focusing on architecting and owning foundational infrastructure tooling and CI/CD platforms that support Okta's SRE ecosystem.

In this development-focused role, you will leverage a modern tech-stack to build durable, automated systems that maximise platform reliability and engineering velocity.

Responsibilities:

- Maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure edge for the Okta identity platform

- Automate AWS infrastructure with Terraform and/or Chef

- Evolve the system by introducing changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and velocity

Requirements:

- 8+ years of operations experience configuring, deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting applications and infrastructure in the cloud

- 8+ years administering or operating within a Linux environment, strong experience using Linux-based tooling, and ability to debug systems-level problems

- In-depth understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, Load Balancing, DNS, and other networking protocols

- Solid understanding and experience with Apache httpd, nginx, Apache Tomcat, or similar

- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills coupled with a desire to take on ownership and responsibility

- Proficiency in Bash, Python, Golang, or similar. Experienced with git

- Experience working with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar automation tools

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Willingness to work on-call

Preferred skills:

- Experience working in a security-oriented cloud environment

- Experience debugging software using gdb, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, Wireshark, etc.

- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes

- Experience with PKI / certificate management

Benefits:

- Health, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k)

- Flexible spending account

- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

Salary ranges:

- San Francisco Bay area: $194,000-$267,000 USD per year

- California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington: $174,000-$239,000 USD per year

## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- TCP/IP
- HTTP
- Load Balancing
- DNS
- Apache httpd
- nginx
- Apache Tomcat
- Bash
- Python
- Golang
- git
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Chef
- Puppet

### Nice to have
- security-oriented cloud environment
- gdb
- strace
- ltrace
- tcpdump
- Wireshark
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- PKI / certificate management

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