2 days ago
Base Salary
$147k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and customer-facing production services.
- Participate in global on-call rotations, incident response, post-incident reviews, and systemic reliability improvements.
- Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, availability, scalability, performance, resilience, and capacity planning.
- Develop software, automation, infrastructure, self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and tooling using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
- Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and production telemetry.
- Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, and product teams on reliability initiatives and operational decisions.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, provide code reviews, and promote reliability engineering best practices.
- Drive projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership.
- Explore AI-assisted engineering and operational automation to reduce toil and improve incident response and troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
- Deep production expertise with Linux and 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, traffic management, observability, and monitoring strategies.
- Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements for customer-facing systems subject to SLAs.
- 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 operations.
- Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, secure infrastructure design, and compliance controls.
- Demonstrated success contributing to complex engineering initiatives and influencing technical direction through expertise, partnership, and execution.
- Experience working effectively in globally distributed engineering organizations.
- The employee must be a US Person, defined as a US Citizen or Green Card Holder, to support US FedRAMP projects.
- Preferred qualifications include SaaS operations, Kubernetes-based microservices, globally distributed production environments, GitOps, ArgoCD, and AI-assisted operational tooling.
Benefits
- Okta offers health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, equity where applicable, bonus, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- The role is tagged as hybrid, and Okta provides flexibility and mobility based on organizational needs and location.
- Employees receive an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate impact and build team connections.
- Okta highlights well-being support, social impact, talent development, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and community connection.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraAWSDatadogGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmKubernetesLinuxMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRedisRustSnowflakeSplunkTerraform
Categories
Site Reliability
About Okta
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.