Director, Site Reliability Engineering (AI Identity)

Okta Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 275.000 - 378.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Okta Inc. is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering in the San Francisco Bay Area to lead a high-caliber SRE organization across multiple products.

You will drive automation, IaC, and modern infrastructure practices to scale a mission-critical SaaS platform. You will oversee incident response, post-incident reviews, and cross-functional collaboration with global teams, while mentoring senior engineers and expanding offshore capabilities.

Formación

• 15+ years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure, or production engineering roles.
• 8+ years of experience in technical leadership & people management including managing managers.
• Strong expertise in automation, observability, performance optimization, and incident response.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-cultural collaboration skills—particularly in a global matrixed setup.
• Experience building and scaling offshore SRE teams that partner with global counterparts.
• 4+ years of experience running the SRE org supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud (AWS preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage large-scale programs.
• Effective verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsabilidades

• Build and lead a high-caliber SRE organization supporting Okta's production fleet.
• Partner with global engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to deliver resilient, scalable services.
• Define and execute the SRE strategy in alignment with global reliability goals.
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive long-term corrective actions; participate in on-call rotations.
• Implement automation and observability to reduce manual toil and improve efficiency; drive IaC, Kubernetes, and AI adoption.
• Hire, mentor, and develop top SRE talent; foster a strong engineering culture focused on reliability.
• Foster collaboration across global teams and promote continuous learning.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Incident response

Cloud experience (AWS)

Automation & observability

Communication skills

People management

Global team scaling

Educación

Computer Science Degree or related degree

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Descripción del empleo

Okta Inc. is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering in the San Francisco Bay Area to lead a high-caliber SRE organization across multiple products.

You will drive automation, IaC, and modern infrastructure practices to scale a mission-critical SaaS platform. You will oversee incident response, post-incident reviews, and cross-functional collaboration with global teams, while mentoring senior engineers and expanding offshore capabilities.