Description
Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (TS/SCI) to join its high-stakes National Security team. The successful candidate will serve as a technical leader, delivering secure, air-gapped solutions for federal partners.
The Role
The Core IDaaS SRE Team spans the globe and Okta's platform to build, deliver, and maintain Okta's legendary resiliency and reliability. The team acts as an advocate for reliability and a guide for global scale, ensuring the product is always available, always secure, and Always On.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver AWS-based projects, primarily writing Terraform, Helm, and Go, and adapting existing deployments for secure federal air-gapped environments.
- Respond and remediate production incidents, performing deep-dive troubleshooting, driving rapid response, and implementing permanent preventive solutions.
- Drive high-quality code and operational rigor through design reviews, code reviews, attention to detail, and deep technical expertise.
- Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the organization to deliver secure, enterprise-grade solutions.
Requirements
- Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance.
- Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6).
- Deep expertise in architecting, deploying, and optimizing software within federal air-gapped environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (Master's degree preferred).
- 6+ years of professional experience running production cloud workloads at scale.
- 4+ years of experience developing and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes or similar orchestration layers.
- Significant hands-on experience with both relational and non-relational datastores.
- Demonstrated success delivering and maintaining both customer-facing interactive workloads and large-scale batch processing.
- Strong foundational knowledge of network security (authentication/authorization) and a commitment to rigorous software engineering best practices.
Benefits
Okta offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).
Salary
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $188,000-$258,500 USD