11 days ago
Base Salary
$174k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and highly available customer-facing production services.
- Participate in a global on-call rotation, lead incident response, and drive post-incident systemic improvements.
- Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
- Ensure infrastructure and operational practices meet FedRAMP compliance and security requirements with continuous audit readiness.
- Build software, automation, infrastructure, self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and developer tooling using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
- Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
- Lead complex reliability initiatives across multiple engineering teams and guide adoption of operational best practices.
- Mentor engineers, influence architecture and technical standards, and drive projects through rollout and long-term operational ownership.
- Explore AI-assisted engineering and operational automation to reduce toil and improve productivity.
Requirements
- Extensive experience architecting and leading large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes patterns, Linux-based production systems, multi-region cloud architectures, and 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, plus experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, observability frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, reliability engineering, capacity planning, and automation-first operations.
- Experience leading incident response and improving customer-facing production systems subject to SLAs.
- Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, secure infrastructure design, and regulated environments.
- Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives across multiple teams and influencing technical direction in globally distributed organizations.
- US Person status, defined as a US Citizen or Green Card Holder, and residence on US soil are required for FedRAMP project eligibility.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with FedRAMP, SOC2, HIPAA, SaaS platforms, Kubernetes-based microservices, globally distributed production environments, GitOps, ArgoCD, and AI-assisted operational tooling.
Benefits
- Annual base salary ranges from $194,000—$267,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area and $174,000—$239,000 in specified other states, excluding equity and bonus.
- Benefits include health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- The role is hybrid and includes an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
- Okta supports well-being, social impact, talent development, and community connection.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraAWSDatadogGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmKubernetesLinuxMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRedisRustSnowflakeSplunkTerraform
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
H1B sponsorship
H1B sponsor history
Sponsorship for this role is unconfirmed.
Okta’s past filings provide context. They do not guarantee sponsorship for a current opening.
H1B petition approvals by fiscal year
- FY 2026 · through Q239
2 initial/new employment approvals · 12 changes of employer
- FY 2025106
12 initial/new employment approvals · 12 changes of employer
- FY 2024113
12 initial/new employment approvals · 12 changes of employer
Counts are petitions, including continuing employment and amendments, rather than unique hires. Source: USCIS
Job fields receiving H1B certifications
Partial fiscal year, through Q3
- Software Developers43 · 47%
- Computer and Information Systems Managers13 · 14%
- Sales Engineers12 · 13%
- Information Technology Project Managers6 · 7%
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers4 · 4%
Job fields come from government occupation codes, rather than internal departments. Counts are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals or unique hires. Withdrawn and denied cases are excluded.
Source: US Department of LaborMatched government employer: OKTA INC
About Okta
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