Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 204,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid leave including PTO and parental leave

Job summary

Okta is looking for a Manager for Site Reliability Engineering in San Francisco, California. This role involves managing SRE teams to support the IDaaS platform, driving the microservice journey, and ensuring workload reliability. Candidates should have a strong technical leadership background and experience in cloud-native architectures.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in leadership, expertise in Agile methodologies, and the ability to enhance infrastructure processes. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance and 401(k) plans.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in technical leadership & people management.
• Experience in building product infrastructure and shared service at scale.
• Strong background in cloud-native architectures and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of SREs for the IDaaS platform.
• Drive the microservice journey and workload reliability.
• Lead and grow a high-performing team across services.

Skills

Technical leadership

Agile methodologies

DevOps methodologies

Cloud-native architectures

Containerization (Kubernetes)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Software development

Observability platforms

Effective communication

Education

Computer Science Degree or related degree

Tools

Grafana

Splunk

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. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We’re all in on this mission. If you are too, let’s talk.

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

San Francisco, California

Okta authenticates, authorizes and provisions millions of users a day. The service is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple availability zones and geographically separated regions. The service is designed for high throughput and 99.999% availability. We’re looking for a technical leader to help us continue to scale the service with great people and reliable, cost‑effective, and efficient infrastructure, processes, and tooling.

As the Manager of Infrastructure Platform and Shared Services, you will oversee multiple teams focused on Edge networking, K8s platform, CI/CD, Observability, automation platform & tooling.

What you'll be doing

• Managing a team of SREs supporting various workloads and teams that support our IDaaS platform.
• Drive the microservice journey, DevOps maturity, and workload reliability in tandem with architects and teams across the organization.
• Accelerate the velocity of SRE and product engineering by developing powerful tooling, intuitive self‑service capabilities, and robust self‑healing patterns.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high‑performing team of engineers and managers across platform, infrastructure, and shared services domains.
• Perform engineering design evaluations and ensure the completion of projects within resource, budget, and scheduling constraints.
• Improve SDLC processes for Cloud infrastructure as a code, including the maturity of CI/CD pipelines, change and release management.
• Manage service and business expectations and prioritize resource allocation.
• Maintain a deep knowledge of industry best practices, evolving trends, and technologies.

What you'll bring to the role

• 3+ years of experience in technical leadership & people management.
• Extensive experience using Agile and DevOps methodologies to build product infrastructure and shared service at scale.
• Experience running large‑scale infrastructure platforms supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud, preferably AWS. Experience supporting a multi‑Cloud environment will be a plus.
• Strong expertise in cloud‑native architectures, containerization (Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong background and hands‑on experience in software development, PaaS and automation.
• Deep experience with building and operating observability platforms and monitoring tools (Grafana, Splunk, APM etc.) in a large scale environment.
• Effective verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Computer Science Degree or related degree or equivalent experience.

Additional requirements

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit https://rewards.okta.com/us.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $204,000 — $281,000 USD.

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