Staff Site Reliability Engineer — Cloud Reliability Leader

Okta; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join the Emerging Products Group. You will own reliability across large-scale cloud services, design automation, and lead cross‑team initiatives to improve performance and security.

This role emphasizes automation, observability, and platform engineering to accelerate developer velocity while maintaining strict security standards. You will partner with software engineers and product teams, shape the reliability roadmap, and mentor other

Qualifications

• Experience architecting large-scale production services in AWS/GCP.
• Proven ability to design multi-region, highly available cloud architectures.
• Strong Kubernetes and Linux engineering standards for enterprise environments.
• Experience with IaC using Terraform/Helm and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and services.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews for systemic improvements.
• Define and improve SLIs/SLOs and error budgets with cross-team collaboration.
• Drive deployment safety via CI/CD and GitOps practices.

Skills

AWS/GCP

Kubernetes patterns

Linux standards

CI/CD

GitOps

Golang

Python

Rust

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join the Emerging Products Group. You will own reliability across large-scale cloud services, design automation, and lead cross‑team initiatives to improve performance and security.

This role emphasizes automation, observability, and platform engineering to accelerate developer velocity while maintaining strict security standards. You will partner with software engineers and product teams, shape the reliability roadmap, and mentor other