Staff SRE: Lead Reliability for Secure Cloud Platforms

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join the Emerging Products Group (EPG). You’ll lead reliability across large-scale cloud services, mentor engineers, and drive automation initiatives to reduce toil and improve incident response.

This role emphasizes FedRAMP-aligned security, cross-team collaboration, and platform engineering excellence. You will partner with software and product teams to shape reliability roadmaps, implement SLOs/SLIs, and advance observability

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting and leading the evolution of large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
• Deep expertise in defining Kubernetes patterns and Linux-based system standards for enterprise-grade production environments.
• Experience designing multi-region, highly available cloud architectures from the ground up.
• Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.
• Proven track record of evaluating 'build vs. buy' decisions and setting long-term technical standards for an organization.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
• Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
• Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.
• Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management.
• Strategic experience designing comprehensive observability frameworks and telemetry-driven operational strategies.
• Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
• Participate in a global on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.
• Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
• Define, measure, and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Ensure all infrastructure and operational practices adhere to strict FedRAMP compliance and security mandates.
• Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
• Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
• Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering.
• Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
• Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities.
• Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security.

Skills

AWS/GCP architecture

Kubernetes patterns

Linux enterprise

Multi-region cloud

Kubernetes networking

Terraform

Helm

Golang

Python

Automation & internal platforms

PostgreSQL/Redis/OpenSearch

Cloud networking

Observability/telemetry

AI-assisted engineering interest

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Okta is seeking an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join the Emerging Products Group (EPG). You’ll lead reliability across large-scale cloud services, mentor engineers, and drive automation initiatives to reduce toil and improve incident response.

This role emphasizes FedRAMP-aligned security, cross-team collaboration, and platform engineering excellence. You will partner with software and product teams to shape reliability roadmaps, implement SLOs/SLIs, and advance observability