Senior Staff SRE: Cloud Reliability, Automation & AI Ops

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Flexible spending account

Paid leave

Parental leave

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer for its Emerging Products Group in the San Francisco Bay area. You will lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and collaborate with software engineers and product teams to scale secure cloud services.

Expect ownership of on-call, incident reviews, and platform modernization with a bias for automation. The role emphasizes AWS/GCP architecture, Kubernetes patterns, IaC, and proactive reliability engineering across multi-region deployments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting and leading large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
• Deep Kubernetes and Linux system pattern expertise for enterprise-grade production.
• Design multi-region, highly available cloud architectures from the ground up.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, and workloads.
• Build long-term technical standards and evaluate build vs. buy decisions.
• IaC expertise with Terraform and Helm.
• Strong Golang and/or Python software engineering skills.
• Automate and build internal engineering platforms.
• Operate distributed data platforms (PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra).
• Understand cloud networking (DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking).
• Design observability frameworks and telemetry-driven strategies.
• Interest or experience in AI-assisted engineering and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
• Participate in global on-call rotation for highly available customer-facing systems.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews for systemic improvements.
• Define, measure, and improve SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve availability, scalability, performance and resilience.
• Ensure infrastructure and practices meet FedRAMP security mandates and audits.
• Improve observability with metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerts.
• Develop automation using Go, Python, Terraform, and related tools.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes patterns

Golang/Python

Automation engineering

CI/CD & GitOps

Observability

Security & compliance

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Job description

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer for its Emerging Products Group in the San Francisco Bay area. You will lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and collaborate with software engineers and product teams to scale secure cloud services.

Expect ownership of on-call, incident reviews, and platform modernization with a bias for automation. The role emphasizes AWS/GCP architecture, Kubernetes patterns, IaC, and proactive reliability engineering across multi-region deployments.