Senior Site Reliability Engineer (FedRAMP)

Oktaabout 2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, United States
Remote
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Job Description

• 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

• We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely

• 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • Support complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams
  • Guide engineers in adopting operational best practices and reliability engineering principles
  • Collaborate, mentor, and assist junior and mid-level engineers on the team, providing code reviews, operational guidance, and promoting best practices
  • Participate in architecture design and operational decisions through data-driven recommendations and engineering expertise
  • Drive projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership
  • Explore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency, incident response, troubleshooting, and automation
  • Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies to reduce toil and improve engineering productivity

Benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health + Wellness
  • Financial Benefits
  • Pay + Incentives
  • Time Off
  • Everyday Living
  • Resources

Required Skills

GitOps
Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Cloud Infrastructure
Observability
Automation
Site Reliability Engineering
Operational Excellence
Go
Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
Python
Incident Response
Terraform
Mentorship
Team Collaboration
FedRAMP Compliance
CI/CD