Okta

Senior Software Engineer - SRE

Okta
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Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.
  • Lead incident response and post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
  • Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
  • Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
  • Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
  • Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation to reduce toil and improve developer velocity.
  • Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
  • Modernize workloads and align them with evolving platform capabilities.

Requirements

  • Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
  • Deep production expertise with Kubernetes, including troubleshooting 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, or Cassandra.
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking, 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.
  • Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.
  • Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, capacity planning, and automation-first operations.
  • Ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.

Benefits

  • Okta supports employee well-being, social impact, talent development, and community connection.
  • The role is hybrid and includes an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
  • Okta has a global community spanning more than 20 offices worldwide.

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About Okta

5,001-10,000 employees

Okta builds cloud-based identity and access management for enterprises and developers, including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management. It sells subscription SaaS as the Okta Workforce Identity and Customer Identity Clouds; the latter incorporates Auth0, acquired in 2021. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Okta is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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