Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Multi-Cloud

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Engineering Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta’s team. At Okta our motto is "Always On", and nowhere do we embrace that more than in Okta’s Infrastructure Platform pillar. We strive to build the most reliable and performant systems on the planet through the skillful use of automation. We've created an integrated system that securely connects any person via any device to the technologies they need to do their most significant work.

This role is ideal for someone who not only enjoys working on large scale cloud production systems and gains pride from seeing those systems handle anything the internet can throw at them. This person will be a core team member of our multi-cloud initiative, brand new to Okta!

If you like to be challenged and have a passion for solving problems at scale with modern tooling, automation, testing, and tuning, then we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate is someone who exemplifies the ethics of, “If you have to do something more than once, automate it,” and who can rapidly self-educate on new concepts and tools.

What you’ll be doing

• Support a highly available and large scale multi-cloud environment as part of an on-call rotation
• Daily coding, scripting, and development - Go, Python, Ruby, Terraform, etc.
• Design, build, and operate Okta's global production infrastructure
• Engage with engineering teams across the company, guiding and empowering them to adopt best practices for reliable and secure service deployment
• Core contributor driving Okta’s multi-cloud initiatives
• Contribute to our mission of building a more robust, elegant, and scalable system through the creation of innovative tools, platform capabilities, and comprehensive documentation.
• Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads, aligning them with our continuous platform improvements
• Identify manual processes and spearhead the development of cutting-edge automation tools to streamline operations

What we are looking for

• US Person Status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, or Asylee)*
• Passionate about automation
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and IP protocols
• Experience with multi-cloud infrastructure is desired
• Background with Linux systems administration
• In-depth knowledge of various types of data stores, including both SQL and NoSQL
• Extensive experience with configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Expertise with GCP highly valued but not required if you have deep technical expertise with AWS
• Proficiency in distributed systems design, with a comprehensive understanding of failure modes, benefits, and potential drawbacks
• Strong expertise with production services in GCP and/or AWS
• Technical excellence with Kubernetes (GKE & EKS) deployments in either GCP or AWS cloud environments, and the ability to tackle containerization challenges for large, complex workloads
• A proven track record of successful SRE engagements, collaborating closely with engineering teams across a wide range of infrastructure domains
• Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, particularly Golang, Python, Ruby, or Java

#LI-Remote

Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable) 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: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

The annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:$158,000—$221,000 USD The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:$175,000—$245,000 USD

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
• Making Social Impact
• Amazing Benefits

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action 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 participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.