# Senior Software Engineer - SRE

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). As a Senior Software Engineer - SRE, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.

**Reliability & Operations**

- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.

- Participate in on-call rotations supporting highly available customer-facing systems.

- Lead 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.

- 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.

**Technical Excellence**

- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.

- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.

- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.

- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.

- Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.

- Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.

- Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.

- Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management.

- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.

- Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.

**Operational Excellence**

- Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems.

- Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.

- Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.

- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.

- Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- GCP
- Infrastructure as Code
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- OpenSearch
- MySQL
- Cassandra

### Nice to have
- AI-assisted engineering
- operational automation

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