Okta

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Splunk

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2 months ago
Chicago, IL, USA +4 moreStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$174k - $267k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Optimize Splunk log collection, processing, storage, Workload Management, and HEC performance for reliability and low latency.
  • Create actionable Splunk dashboards that correlate data across multiple sources.
  • Automate deployment and scaling of observability agents and collectors.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, lead post-incident reviews, and drive systemic reliability improvements.
  • Build internal tools and automate workflows using SPL and Go.
  • Troubleshoot complex cross-service performance bottlenecks in distributed systems.

Requirements

  • At least five years of experience scaling and managing Splunk Cloud at scale, including environments with 1,000+ services, Workload Management, and HEC optimization.
  • At least five years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role focused on high-availability systems.
  • Strong coding skills in SPL and Go.
  • Deep understanding of Linux internals, TCP/IP, DNS, and container orchestration with Kubernetes or EKS.
  • Expertise creating intuitive, actionable Splunk dashboards across multiple data sources.
  • Ability to access federal environments or protected federal data and provide documentation establishing U.S. Person status upon hire.
  • Preferred experience with OpenTelemetry, Vector, Splunk charge-back applications, and observability tools on AWS or GCP.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary ranges from $194,000 to $267,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area and from $174,000 to $239,000 in specified other states.
  • Equity, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave are offered in accordance with applicable plans and policies.
  • The role is hybrid and requires in-person onboarding at the San Francisco office during the first week of employment.
  • Okta provides well-being support, social-impact programs, talent development, and community-building initiatives.

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
Okta

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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