Staff SRE: AI-Driven Cloud Reliability Leader

Okta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Health, dental and vision insurance

401(k) and paid leave

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer for the Emerging Products Group (EPG) in the United States. You will lead reliability initiatives across multiple teams, shape the reliability roadmap, and drive automation-minded engineering practices to improve availability, security, and developer velocity.

This role emphasizes ownership, cross-team collaboration, and strategic tech leadership. You’ll mentor engineers, influence architecture, and apply data-driven decisions while advancing

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting and leading large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
• Deep expertise defining Kubernetes patterns and Linux-based standards.
• Experience designing multi-region, highly available cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
• Lead incident response and drive post-incident reviews for systemic improvements.
• Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Distributed systems

Security/compliance

Tools

Terraform

Helm

PostgreSQL

Redis

OpenSearch

Docker

Job description

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer for the Emerging Products Group (EPG) in the United States. You will lead reliability initiatives across multiple teams, shape the reliability roadmap, and drive automation-minded engineering practices to improve availability, security, and developer velocity.

This role emphasizes ownership, cross-team collaboration, and strategic tech leadership. You’ll mentor engineers, influence architecture, and apply data-driven decisions while advancing