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Okta

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI)

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about 3 hours ago
Washington, DC, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$174k - $238k/yr

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 efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
  • Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
  • Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
  • Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
  • Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering.
  • Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
  • Lead complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
  • Mentor engineers through technical collaboration, design reviews, incident analysis, and knowledge sharing.
  • Explore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency.

Requirements

  • Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly.
  • Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
  • Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar technologies.
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS and load balancing.
  • Experience with observability platforms and production telemetry.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Flexible spending account.
  • Paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
  • Equity and bonus opportunities.