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# Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Observability GCP

- **Company:** Okta, Inc.
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $194,000.0 - $267,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Software Debugging, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Python (Programming Language), Linux Kernel, Reliability Engineering, Ruby, TCP/IP, Google Cloud, Load Balancing, Grafana, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Data Analytics, Software Coding, Terraform, Splunk
- **Published:** June 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f9eca4314e26b78e

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Tooling?, We are seeking a highly technical Observability Site Reliability Engineer with a specialty in Google Cloud, to own and expand our Observability ecosystem into GCP. In this role, you will move beyond simple monitoring to delivering a world class, comprehensive, scalable Observability Platform that enables our SRE teams and business partners. You will treat infrastructure as code-utilizing Terraform and strong coding proficiency in Go, Python, or Ruby-to automate the deployment of agents and collectors across complex distributed systems., GKE: Minimum 5+ Experience scaling and managing observability in a Google Cloud platform. Visualization: Expertise in creating intuitive, actionable Splunk or Grafana dashboards that correlate data across multiple sources.SRE Mindset: Minimum 3+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role with a focus on high-availability systems.

 * Programming Proficiency: Strong coding skills in Python, Go for building internal tools and automating workflows.
 * Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE).
 * Problem Solving: A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks.

Bonus Skills (The "Nice-to-Haves")

 * Telemetry Standards: Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.
 * Grafana Loki: Experience in migrating Splunk to Grafana Loki

Other Cloud Platforms: Experience managing observability native tools within AWS., * This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

## Description

* Automated Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
 * GCP Observabilty Engineering: Optimize the collection, processing, and storage of Observabilty data to ensure high reliability and low latency of our Splunk and Grafana services
 * Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews to drive systemic improvements and "observability-driven development."
 * Automation: Eliminate "toil" by automating the deployment and scaling of observability agents and collectors.


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