Senior SRE: AI-Driven Cloud Reliability & Automation

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Emerging Products Group to design, build, and operate reliable cloud services with an automation-first mindset. You will collaborate with software engineers, architects, and product teams to automate workflows, improve observability, and drive reliability across production systems.

The role emphasizes incident response, FedRAMP compliance, and building self-service platforms to empower developer velocity while maintaining security and

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
• Deep expertise with Linux and 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
• Participate in a global on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.
• Participate in 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.
• Ensure all infrastructure and operational practices adhere to strict FedRAMP compliance and security mandates, maintaining continuous audit readiness.
• 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.
• Support complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Guide engineers in adopting operational best practices and reliability engineering principles.
• Collaborate, mentor, and assist junior and mid-level engineers on the team, providing code reviews, operational guidance, and promoting best practices.
• Participate in architecture design and operational decisions through data-driven recommendations and engineering expertise.
• Drive projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership.
• Explore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency, incident response, troubleshooting, and automation.

Skills

Cloud experience

Linux

Kubernetes

Golang

Python

Automation

Observability

Distributed DB

CI/CD

AI Ops

Tools

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Git

Datadog

Splunk

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Redis

OpenSearch

Job description

Okta is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Emerging Products Group to design, build, and operate reliable cloud services with an automation-first mindset. You will collaborate with software engineers, architects, and product teams to automate workflows, improve observability, and drive reliability across production systems.

The role emphasizes incident response, FedRAMP compliance, and building self-service platforms to empower developer velocity while maintaining security and