Senior Site Reliability Engineer (CI-CD/CTAP/Delivery team)

Okta; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its Emerging Products Group in Bengaluru. The role focuses on building highly reliable, scalable cloud services with an automation-first mindset and strong emphasis on observability and operational excellence.

You will partner with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate production systems at scale while driving incident response, reliability metrics, and platform engineering

Qualifications

• Experience operating large-scale production services in cloud environments.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes in production.
• Proficient with Terraform and Helm.
• Proficient in Go and/or Python.
• Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.
• Experience with distributed data stores like PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for highly available customer-facing systems.
• Lead incident response and drive post-incident reviews.
• Define, measure, and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, and performance.
• Improve observability with metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
• Develop automation using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
• Eliminate operational toil through automation and platform engineering.
• Improve deployment safety with CI/CD and GitOps practices.
• Collaborate on modernizing workloads and align with evolving platform capabilities.
• Build self-service platforms and automation to boost developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Terraform

Helm

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

GitOps

Observability

Incident response

PostgreSQL

Redis

OpenSearch

MySQL

Cassandra

Networking fundamentals

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

The Engineering Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely.

This role is ideal for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a key contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.

What You'll Be Doing

Reliability & Operations

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
• Participate in an 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.
• 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.

What We Are Looking For

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.

The Okta Experience

• Driving Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
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