Site Reliability Engineer

Okta, Inc.
Washington, DC, United States
10 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
$147,000.0 - $202,400.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Big Data Software as a Service Cloud Engineering Databases Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration Data Systems Database Schema Reliability Engineering Software Deployment Software Engineering
+11 more
Spinnaker System Availability Delivery Pipeline Snowflake Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Database Migration Containerization Kubernetes Data Management Software Coding Terraform

Job description

Our company is seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. We are a SaaS company specializing in securing large-scale systems. This role is a blend of software engineering and systems administration, where you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure. You will be a key contributor, applying your expertise to automate manual processes and proactively solve complex problems before they become incidents, handling incidents, and includes on-call shifts. Responsibilities

  • Platform & Reliability: Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that underpins our security SaaS offerings, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability. This includes building and operating the tooling for our Snowflake data systems.
  • Automation: Develop robust automation using code to eliminate toil and ensure consistency across our environments. You’ll be a key driver in automating everything from infrastructure provisioning to application deployment and incident response.
  • Security & Compliance: Work closely with our security teams to embed a security-first mindset into all our processes and infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring our systems and data platforms are compliant with industry standards.
  • Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations and be a primary responder for critical incidents, leading root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures to ensure issues don’t recur.
  • Collaboration: Partner with development, data science, and security teams to provide expert guidance on architectural decisions, best practices, and the implementation of new services.

Requirements

  • Strong Coding Skills: You are a developer at heart and are comfortable writing production-level code to solve complex operational challenges.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep experience with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure and services.
  • Continuous Delivery: Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and tools, particularly Spinnaker, to automate and standardize our release pipelines.
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Expertise in container technologies and hands-on experience managing large-scale, production-ready clusters with Kubernetes.
  • Database Migrations: Experience with database schema management tools like Flyway for safely and reliably handling database changes.
  • Data Systems: Direct experience with large-scale data systems, specifically with the Snowflake platform.
  • AI/ML Experience (a plus): Experience or a strong interest in AI/ML, particularly how these technologies can be applied to improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency (e.g., AIOps, predictive analysis).
  • Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential issues.

Benefits & conditions

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit:

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:

$147,000-$202,400 USD

The Okta Experience

  • Supporting Your Well-Being
  • Driving Social Impact
  • Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

About the company

Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

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