12 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and evolution of the Bengaluru Kubernetes platform, including cluster strategy, multi-tenancy, networking, and security posture.
- Lead the design and rollout of self-service platform capabilities, golden paths, and self-healing patterns for internal engineering teams.
- Drive reliable, scalable infrastructure for AI-driven internal workflows, including model serving, GPU scheduling, and orchestration.
- Resolve complex production incidents, capacity and scaling challenges, and cross-system failure modes.
- Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation and lead root-cause analysis and postmortems.
- Set technical standards for SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and on-call practices.
- Improve infrastructure-as-code SDLC, CI/CD pipeline maturity, and change and release management.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on pairing.
- Partner with architects, security, and product engineering teams on infrastructure, reliability, security, and delivery decisions.
- Represent the Bengaluru team in global platform architecture discussions and coordinate with Staff and Principal engineers across India and the US.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering with staff-level technical leadership.
- Deep hands-on production-scale Kubernetes expertise covering architecture, multi-tenancy, networking, security, and day-two operations.
- Experience operating large-scale internal infrastructure platforms in a public cloud, preferably AWS.
- Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, Terraform, and GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong proficiency in Python or similar scripting and programming languages.
- Experience operating infrastructure for AI/ML or agentic workflows, including model serving, GPU scheduling, or orchestration frameworks.
- Deep experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Splunk, or APM platforms.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams and geographies without formal authority.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, mentoring experience, and experience driving alignment across distributed teams.
- Computer Science degree or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience building internal developer platforms, operating AI agent orchestration or inference infrastructure, working across AWS and Azure or GCP, using Istio, Linkerd, ArgoCD, or Flux, holding Kubernetes or cloud certifications, or administering GitHub, GitLab, or equivalent SCM platforms.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model based in Bengaluru, India, with specific in-office expectations discussed during hiring.
- Follow-the-sun collaboration with SRE peers and engineers in India and the US, with some flexibility in working hours expected.
- Immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
- Well-being support, social impact programs, and talent development and community-building initiatives.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite 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.