Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Emerging Products Group
About the job
- Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale production systems in Amazon Web Services and/or Google Cloud Platform.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Experience designing reliability strategies for Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Strong expertise troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle challenges.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
- Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, and operational automation.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and cloud-native application design.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, service discovery, ingress, load balancing, TLS, traffic management, and multi-region architectures.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
- Experience establishing observability standards, monitoring strategies, and operational best practices across engineering organizations.
- Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.
- Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems at scale.
- Deep understanding of reliability engineering principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and resilience engineering.
- Experience leading major incident response efforts and driving long-term operational improvements.
- Strong understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery, GitOps, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.
- Proven success driving large-scale reliability transformations and architectural modernization efforts.
- Ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, customer experience, and engineering velocity.
- Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals, identity and access management, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.
- Familiarity with operational controls, compliance requirements, and security best practices in cloud-native environments.
- Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams and organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and influence engineering outcomes across multiple organizations and leadership teams.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction without direct organizational authority.
- Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple time zones and cultures.
- Strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience mentoring Staff engineers and helping develop future technical leaders.
- Ability to translate business objectives into technical strategy and measurable reliability outcomes.
- Experience working closely with engineering leadership, architects, and product leaders to drive organizational change.
- Define and drive the reliability strategy for critical product and platform services.
- Establish standards for availability, resilience, observability, incident management, and operational readiness.
- Lead architecture reviews for critical services and platform initiatives.
- Partner with engineering leaders to ensure reliability objectives align with business priorities and customer expectations.
- Create frameworks, standards, and operational guardrails that enable engineering teams to operate safely at scale.
- Guide service architecture toward simplicity, scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.
- Drive major initiatives that improve platform maturity and long-term sustainability.
- Own reliability architecture and operational excellence for the Spera / Identity Security Posture Management product area.
- Collaborate closely with engineering leadership to establish reliability objectives and technical roadmaps.
- Lead large-scale scalability, resiliency, and performance initiatives.
- Partner with platform and product engineering teams to build self-service operational capabilities that improve developer productivity while strengthening reliability and security.
- Influence technical direction through data-driven recommendations, engineering expertise, and collaborative leadership.
- Support highly available, large-scale cloud environments as part of an on-call rotation.
- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
- Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
- Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering.
- Improve deployment safety, operational workflows, and platform consistency through GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities.
- Lead complex engineering initiatives from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership.
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers across multiple teams and organizations.
- Lead technical reviews, design reviews, and operational readiness assessments.
- Build engineering consensus across teams with differing priorities and objectives.
- Help develop the next generation of technical leaders within Okta.
- Drive adoption of reliability engineering best practices across the Emerging Products Group.
- Share patterns, tooling, and operational practices across Workflows, Inbox, Privileged Access Management, and Identity Security Posture Management teams.
- Lead the exploration and adoption of AI-assisted reliability engineering practices across the Emerging Products Group.
- Design and champion agentic systems that accelerate troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational decision-making.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify practical opportunities to improve reliability engineering workflows.
- Establish best practices for safe, effective, and measurable use of AI within production operations.
- Drive initiatives that reduce operational toil and improve engineering productivity through intelligent automation.
- Experience operating Software as a Service platforms serving millions of users.
- Experience supporting globally distributed production environments.
- Experience leading platform engineering or reliability transformation initiatives.
- Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling, agentic workflows, or intelligent automation platforms.
- Prior experience as a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior technical leader in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Operations.
About the company
Okta provides a cloud-based platform that manages and secures digital identities for businesses and government agencies. The software works by centralizing user authentication through tools like single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, allowing employees to access all their work applications with one secure login. Unlike traditional hardware-based security, Okta operates entirely in the cloud, making it easier to manage remote workforces and automate the process of granting or removing access as employees join or leave a company. The company's goal is to ensure that the right individuals have secure access to the right digital resources at the right time.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2009
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 fiscal 2027 revenue reached $805 million, up 11%, on August 26, 2026.
- Current RPO rose 14%, and Q3 guidance calls for 10% revenue growth.
- Analysts lifted targets after Oktane 2026, citing AI-agent monetization and durable reacceleration.
What critics are saying
- Access Gateway CVE-2026-78626 and CVE-2026-78550 expose privileged control paths since September 8, 2026.
- Microsoft Entra, CrowdStrike, and Google Cloud compress Okta's identity moat through alliance interoperability.
- The 2022 insider-trading scandal still shadows Okta's governance credibility despite 2025 settlement closure.
What makes Okta unique
- Okta remains the only independent identity provider in Blueprint Alliance, September 2026.
- Okta for AI Agents and Agent SSO address enterprise governance for autonomous software.
- Cross App Access standardizes agent-to-app authorization across thousands of enterprise integrations.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Holidays
Flexible Work Hours
Remote Work Options
Parental Leave
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↑ 0%1 year growth
↓ -11%2 year growth
↑ 0%Citizens has raised its price target for Okta to $225 from $180, maintaining an "Outperform" rating, citing the company's strategic position in AI identity security as a driver for durable growth re-acceleration. The new target implies about 15% upside from the stock's last close of $195.19. Okta's second-quarter revenue rose 11% year-over-year, whilst current remaining performance obligations increased 14%. The company raised its full-year revenue outlook to between $3.216 billion and $3.226 billion, representing 10% to 11% growth. Roth Capital noted that Okta for AI Agents is producing a 50%-60% uplift in deal values, though the opportunity remains early. The product helps businesses discover agents, control access, and monitor behaviour as AI agents increasingly require their own identities and controls. OKTA stock has rallied more than 133% this year.
MIND today announced $30M Series A funding led by Paladin Capital Group and Crosspoint Capital Partners with participation from Okta Ventures and YL Ventures.
Jim Cramer discussed identity management firm Okta on 18 September, focusing on its role in AI security. Cramer highlighted CEO Todd McKinnon's confidence in Okta's ability to identify and stop malicious AI activity. Okta's shares have risen more than 120% year-to-date, though the company's growth lags behind peers CrowdStrike and Zscaler. Okta's second-quarter revenue grew 11% annually, compared with 26% for both competitors. The firm guided for 10% to 11% annual revenue growth for fiscal year 2027. In September, Okta announced new products including Okta for AI agents and extended its Identity Governance platform to cover AI agents. The company reported over 605 customers with more than $1 million in annual contract value in Q2.
Redwire, a Jacksonville-based provider of space infrastructure systems and components, holds a net cash position of $466.8 million, representing 16.6% of its market capitalisation. The company achieved 20.8% annual revenue growth over the past two years and expects 20.6% growth over the next 12 months, indicating market share gains. In contrast, two companies with cash-heavy balance sheets face challenges. Okta, which provides cloud-based identity management solutions, saw its average ARR growth slow to 11.8% over the past year, with sales growth expected to decelerate further to 9.9%. Richardson Electronics, a distributor of power grid and microwave tubes, recorded just 5.3% annual revenue growth over five years. The company's free cash flow margin stands at -0.9%, with declining returns on capital signalling weak investment performance.
Aembit has launched support for Okta's Cross App Access protocol, extending enterprise identity controls to AI agents. The identity and access management company is partnering with Okta at Oktane 2026 in Las Vegas this week. Cross App Access eliminates repeated consent steps as agents connect to approved applications, whilst Aembit provides verified agent identity and policy-based access enforcement. The integration allows organisations to extend existing Okta identity policies to agent-driven connections. The solution addresses the growing challenge of managing access relationships as AI agents operate across multiple enterprise platforms. Security teams can now apply centralised identity policies to agent connections whilst maintaining accountability through blended identity, which links user context with agent identity.