1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Champion observability best practices and teach engineering teams to implement standardized instrumentation.
- Run services in production and contribute to service designs supporting high growth and high availability.
- Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools such as Terraform.
- Troubleshoot performance and operational issues and automate operational tasks and scripts.
- Support performance testing and automation.
- Participate in major incident response, diagnose root causes, and identify telemetry gaps.
- Lead cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards.
- Support product teams with service integration and investigate observability gaps.
Requirements
- 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience.
- Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Expertise with Datadog Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking, including alerting standards, tagging taxonomies, and Terraform-managed configurations.
- Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar containerization and orchestration tools.
- Data-driven debugging skills for complex cross-service performance bottlenecks.
- Deep understanding of microservice architecture and best practices.
- Experience coaching and mentoring junior engineers.
- Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and collaborate across engineering teams.
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Vector, or similar application-instrumentation frameworks.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $136,000–$187,000 CAD for candidates located in Canada.
- Equity where applicable and bonus opportunities.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- Immersive in-person onboarding experience and access to a global community spanning more than 20 offices.
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.