Senior Site Reliability Engineer - EPG
Bellevue · San Francisco · United States · Hybrid · Posted Oct 12, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Bellevue · San Francisco · United States
About the role
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG).
- Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust.
- You will serve as a key contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.
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.
- Participate in incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
- Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (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, maintaining continuous audit readiness.
- 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.
Requirements
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
- Deep expertise with Linux and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.
- 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.
- Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems subject to SLA
- This role supports US FedRAMP projects and requires the employee to be a US Person (US Citizen or Green Card Holder) to meet FedRAMP compliance and security clearance standards.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience implementing operational controls, compliance standards (e.g., FedRAMP, SOC2, HIPAA), and best practices in highly regulated or security-sensitive government cloud environments is highly preferred.
- Experience operating SaaS platforms serving large-scale customer workloads.
- Experience working within Kubernetes-based microservices environments.
- Experience supporting globally distributed production environments.
- Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD.
- Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling or automation workflows.
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending account
- Paid leave including PTO and parental leave
- Equity (where applicable)
- Bonus
Workplace
- Hybrid workplace model.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Helm
- Git
- ArgoCD
- Golang
- Python
- Rust
- Datadog
- Splunk
- Graphana
- PostgreSQL
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- Redis
- OpenSearch
- Snowflake
