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Okta is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Emerging Products Group (EPG), focused on building highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services. This role combines infrastructure operations, platform engineering, and software development to enable engineering teams to move quickly and safely at scale.
You will serve as a key technical contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services. The role balances hands-on technical work with strategic reliability improvements.
Key Responsibilities:
Reliability & Operations:
- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services
- Participate in on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems
- Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements
- Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets
- Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience
- Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting
Engineering & Automation:
- Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies
- Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering
- Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices
- Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities
- Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security
Requirements:
Technical Excellence:
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments
- Experience troubleshooting 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
- 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 with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation
Operational Excellence:
- Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems
- Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements
- Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices
- Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity
