Senior Observability Engineer for Platform Reliability

Okta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 147,000 - 202,000; 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 in New York is seeking an Observability Engineer to enhance the monitoring and stability of its platforms. This role involves championing best practices in observability and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will help integrate services with instrumentation libraries and actively assist in incident response.

Qualified candidates will have over 5 years of experience in platform engineering or SRE, and strong skills in cloud technologies like AWS and the Datadog ecosystem. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps.
• Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang.

Responsibilities

• Champion observability best practices and educate other teams.
• Contribute to the design of services for high growth and availability.
• Troubleshoot performance and operational issues.

Skills

Platform engineering

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

DevOps

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

Datadog ecosystem

Node.js or Golang

Containerization and orchestration

Microservice architecture

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Okta in New York is seeking an Observability Engineer to enhance the monitoring and stability of its platforms. This role involves championing best practices in observability and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will help integrate services with instrumentation libraries and actively assist in incident response.

Qualified candidates will have over 5 years of experience in platform engineering or SRE, and strong skills in cloud technologies like AWS and the Datadog ecosystem. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package.