Staff Observability SRE - Splunk Platform Lead

Okta; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision insurance

401(k)

Equity where applicable

Job summary

Okta is hiring a Staff Observability Site Reliability Engineer with a specialty in Splunk to own and evolve our Splunk ecosystem. You will implement scalable observability infrastructure, treat infrastructure as code with Terraform, and code in Go or Python to automate deployment across distributed systems.

Expect on-call responsibilities, post-incident reviews, and collaboration with business partners to deliver reliable data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Log Management: 5+ years scaling Splunk Cloud (1000+ SVCs) including WLM and HEC optimization.
• Visualization: Create intuitive Splunk dashboards correlating data across sources.
• SRE Mindset: 5+ years in SRE/DevOps or Systems Engineering focused on high-availability systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using Terraform.
• Optimize collection, processing, and storage of log data for reliable, low-latency Splunk services.
• Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews to drive observability-driven improvements.

Skills

Splunk Cloud

SRE/DevOps

Go

Kubernetes/EKS

Linux networking

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Vector

Charge-back app

Job description

Okta is hiring a Staff Observability Site Reliability Engineer with a specialty in Splunk to own and evolve our Splunk ecosystem. You will implement scalable observability infrastructure, treat infrastructure as code with Terraform, and code in Go or Python to automate deployment across distributed systems.

Expect on-call responsibilities, post-incident reviews, and collaboration with business partners to deliver reliable data-driven insights.