Okta

Senior Software Engineer, Observability

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10 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +3 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$147k - $202k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Champion observability best practices and educate engineering teams on standardized instrumentation.
  • Run production services and contribute to designing services for high growth, availability, and stability.
  • Provision, configure, monitor, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and scalable observability tooling.
  • Troubleshoot performance and operational issues, automate operational tasks, and improve scripts.
  • Support performance testing and automation efforts.
  • 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 and integrate services with instrumentation libraries.

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 comparable 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 with multiple engineering teams.
  • Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Vector, or similar application instrumentation frameworks.
  • Ability to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status for access to federal environments or protected federal data.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $147,000-$202,000 USD for specified locations, excluding equity and bonus.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) and flexible spending account.
  • Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave.
  • Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the posting.
  • Immersive in-person onboarding experience.
  • Talent development, well-being support, and social impact programs.
  • Equal opportunity employer and reasonable accommodation support.

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5,001-10,000 employees

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