Okta

Senior Software Engineer - SRE

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1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

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 operational 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 engineering tooling.
  • Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.
  • Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through automation, CI/CD, and GitOps practices.
  • Partner with software engineers, architects, and product teams to modernize workloads and improve developer velocity.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience operating large-scale, customer-facing production services in AWS and/or GCP.
  • Deep production expertise with Kubernetes, including troubleshooting 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 Go and/or Python.
  • 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 fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management.
  • Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.
  • Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.
  • Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operations.
  • Ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.
  • Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement, indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
  • In-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate impact and build connection with the team.
  • Well-being support, social impact programs, and talent development and community-building initiatives.

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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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