Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI)

Experteer Overview In this role you join Okta’s Federal SRE team to design, build, and operate reliable cloud services for government-focused workloads. You will lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and collaborate with product, software, and security teams to meet FedRAMP/IL6 readiness. You’ll own incident response, SLI/SLO definitions, and continuous improvement of observability and platform tooling. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape secure, scalable infrastructure for mission-critical applications. Compensation / Benefits * Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services * Participate in on-call rotation for highly available systems * Lead incident response and conduct post-incident reviews for systemic improvements * Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets * Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance availability, scalability, and performance * Advance observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerts * Develop automation and infrastructure code using Go, Python, Terraform * Promote CI/CD and GitOps practices to improve deployment safety * Mentor engineers and guide reliability engineering practices * Drive multi-team reliability initiatives and data-driven architectural influence Tasks * Extensive experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP * Deep Kubernetes expertise in production environments * Proficiency with IaC (Terraform, Helm) * Strong software skills in Go and/or Python * Experience with distributed data stores (PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, etc.) * Solid understanding of cloud networking, TLS, DNS, load balancing, and service networking * Experience with observability platforms and production telemetry * Experience with or interest in AI-assisted engineering and automation * Proven incident response leadership and operational improvements * Security clearance readiness and ability to operate in regulated environments Key requirements * equity (where applicable) * bonus * health, dental and vision insurance * 401(k) * flexible spending account * paid leave

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