Staff SRE: AI Identity Cloud Reliability Leader

Okta; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join the Emerging Products Group. You will lead complex reliability initiatives, partner with software engineers, and drive automation and platform engineering to improve velocity without compromising security.

The role emphasizes FedRAMP compliance, observability, and incident response. You will mentor engineers, shape reliability roadmaps, and champion AI-assisted operational tooling to reduce toil.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting and leading large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes patterns and Linux-based standards for enterprise environments.
• Experience designing multi-region, highly available cloud architectures.
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, and lifecycle issues.
• Proven build-vs-buy judgment and long-term technical standards.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Helm.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
• Participate in global on-call rotation for highly available systems.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews for systemic improvements.
• Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resiliency with engineering teams.
• Ensure FedRAMP compliance and audit readiness for infrastructure.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Linux

Golang

Python

Terraform

GitOps

PostgreSQL

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

GitOps

ArgoCD

Job description

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join the Emerging Products Group. You will lead complex reliability initiatives, partner with software engineers, and drive automation and platform engineering to improve velocity without compromising security.

The role emphasizes FedRAMP compliance, observability, and incident response. You will mentor engineers, shape reliability roadmaps, and champion AI-assisted operational tooling to reduce toil.