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Okta

Secures digital identities for people and software

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Deep expertise with 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.
  • Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.
  • Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.
  • Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems.
  • Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.
  • Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts, including Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives, error budgets, and capacity planning.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.
  • Ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.
  • Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, identity and access management, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple time zones and cultures.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and elevating technical capabilities within an organization.
  • Ability to influence technical direction through expertise, partnership, and execution.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.
  • Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
  • Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives, and error budgets.
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
  • 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.
  • Lead complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
  • Guide engineers in adopting operational best practices and reliability engineering principles.
  • Mentor engineers through technical collaboration, design reviews, incident analysis, and knowledge sharing.
  • Influence architecture 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.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience implementing operational controls and best practices in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
  • 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.

About the Company

Okta

Secures digital identities for people and software

Okta builds cloud identity software that controls how employees, customers, and automated systems access applications and company resources. Its single sign-on product lets people use one login across their work tools, while passwordless sign-in and additional identity checks protect accounts from stolen credentials. Administrators use its directory, access policies, and lifecycle tools to grant permissions when someone joins an organization and remove them when they leave. Organizations pay subscriptions based on the products they use and the identities they manage, with support included. Okta was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2009

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