Senior Site Reliability Engineer (FedRAMP)

Okta • San Francisco, California

H1B Sponsor full-time mid Competitive

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human<br><br></strong>Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.<br><br>This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.</p></div><div class="SingleJob-content">
<h1><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Engineering Opportunity</strong></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a key contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The ideal candidate exemplifies the philosophy of "if you have to do it more than once, automate it" and possesses a strong passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and software engineering.</span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What You'll Be Doing</strong></span></h1>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Reliability &amp; Operations</strong></span></h2>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Participate in a global on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Participate in incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ensure all infrastructure and operational practices adhere to strict FedRAMP compliance and security mandates, maintaining continuous audit readiness.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting</span>.</li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Engineering &amp; Automation</strong></span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Collaboration &amp; Technical Contribution</strong></span></h2>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Support complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Guide engineers in adopting operational best practices and reliability engineering principles.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate, mentor, and assist junior and mid-level engineers on the team, providing code reviews, operational guidance, and promoting best practices.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Participate in architecture design and operational decisions through data-driven recommendations and engineering expertise.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Drive projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Innovation</strong></span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Explore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency, incident response, troubleshooting, and automation.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies to reduce toil and improve engineering productivity.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Our Tech Stack</strong></span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Infrastructure/Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Terraform, Helm, Git, ArgoCD, GitOps</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Programming: Golang, Python, Rust</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Observability: Datadog, Splunk, Graphana</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Data Stores: PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Snowflake</span></li>
</ul>
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<p><strong>What We Are Looking For</strong></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Technical Excellence</strong></span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Deep expertise with Linux and Kubernetes in production environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Operational Excellence</strong></span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems subject to SLA</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Federal Eligibility Requirements</strong></span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This role supports US FedRAMP projects and requires the employee to be a US Person (US Citizen or Green Card Holder) to meet FedRAMP compliance and security clearance standards.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Security &amp; Compliance</strong></span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience implementing operational controls, compliance standards (e.g., FedRAMP, SOC2, HIPAA), and best practices in highly regulated or security-sensitive government cloud environments is highly preferred.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Leadership</strong></span></h2>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated success contributing to complex engineering initiatives.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong collaboration and communication skills.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple timezones and cultures.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience collaborating with engineers and contributing to technical capabilities within an organization.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ability to influence technical direction through expertise, partnership, and execution.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience operating SaaS platforms serving large-scale customer workloads.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience working within Kubernetes-based microservices environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience supporting globally distributed production environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling or automation workflows.&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
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</div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: </div><div class="pay-range"><span>$165,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$227,000 USD</span></div></div><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: </span><a href="https://rewards.okta.com/us"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://rewards.okta.com/us</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br></span></p></div><div class="title">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:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$147,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$202,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>The Okta Experience</strong></p>
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