2 months ago
Base Salary
$174k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and highly available customer-facing production services.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive post-incident reviews and systemic 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 internal tooling.
- Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
- Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and production telemetry.
- Lead reliability initiatives across multiple engineering teams and guide adoption of operational best practices.
- Mentor engineers through technical collaboration, design reviews, incident analysis, and knowledge sharing.
- Influence architecture and operational decisions and own projects from conception through production rollout and ongoing operations.
- Explore AI-assisted engineering and emerging technologies to reduce operational toil and improve incident response and productivity.
Requirements
- Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly.
- Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6).
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP and deep production Kubernetes expertise.
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes 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 distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, or Cassandra.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, observability, monitoring, production telemetry, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and reliability engineering concepts.
- Experience leading incident response, complex engineering initiatives, and operational improvements across multiple teams.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction in globally distributed organizations.
- Preferred qualifications include operating large-scale SaaS platforms, Kubernetes-based microservices, globally distributed production environments, GitOps and ArgoCD, and AI-assisted operational tooling.
- Must be on U.S. soil and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance as required by U.S. Government contracts.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- Immersive in-person onboarding experience.
- Employees must be located on U.S. soil and maintain the required U.S. security clearance.
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.