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Salary: EUR 92,000 - 126,500 / annual
Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join its Dublin/EMEA infrastructure team. You will be the senior-most technical voice on the ground, setting architectural direction for the Kubernetes platform, driving reliability and scaling challenges to resolution, and partnering with Staff/Principal engineers across US and India teams to maintain global platform strategy coherence. You will report to the Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the architecture and evolution of the Kubernetes platform for Dublin/EMEA, including cluster strategy, multi-tenancy, networking, and security posture in coordination with global counterparts
- Leading technical design and rollout of self-service platform capabilities, golden paths, and self-healing patterns to enable internal teams to ship and operate workflows without deep platform expertise
- Driving platform readiness for AI-driven internal workflows at scale, including model serving, GPU scheduling, and orchestration infrastructure
- Taking ownership of the hardest, highest-ambiguity reliability problems: complex production incidents, capacity and scaling challenges, and cross-system failure modes
- Participating in follow-the-sun on-call rotation with SRE peers across regions, driving root-cause resolution and postmortems
- Setting technical standards for SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and on-call practice, holding the team accountable
- Improving SDLC processes for infrastructure-as-code, including CI/CD pipeline maturity and change/release management
- Mentoring engineers across the team and raising the technical bar through design reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on pairing
- Partnering with architects, security, and product engineering teams to align infrastructure decisions with business reliability, security, and delivery needs
- Representing the Dublin/EMEA team in global platform architecture discussions as a peer with Staff/Principal-level engineers
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering with a track record of staff-level technical leadership
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Kubernetes at production scale (architecture, multi-tenancy, networking, security, day-2 operations)
- Experience running large-scale internal infrastructure platforms in public cloud, preferably AWS
- Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building or operating infrastructure that hosts AI/ML or agentic workflows (model serving, GPU scheduling, orchestration frameworks)
- Deep experience with observability platforms and monitoring tools (Grafana, Splunk, APM, or equivalent) in large-scale environments
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams and geographies without formal authority
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with experience mentoring engineers and driving technical alignment across distributed teams
- Computer Science degree or related field, or equivalent experience
Extra credit for: internal developer platform (IDP) experience with platform-as-product mindset, AI agent orchestration/vector databases/model routing/inference optimization, multi-cloud experience (AWS plus Azure/GCP), service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux) in production Kubernetes, Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD) or equivalent cloud certifications, enterprise-scale SCM platform management experience (GitHub, GitLab).
