Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI)

Okta · SW Eng - Infrastructure-672

Location: Washington, DC
Metro: Washington, DC
Workplace: Unspecified
Level: Staff+
Type: Unspecified
Pay: $174K–$238K/yr (estimated from posting text)
Posted: 3 months ago
Source: Greenhouse

Python Go AWS GCP Kubernetes Terraform PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Cassandra

What the posting covers

About the company

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to…

The Federal SRE Team

We are looking for an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Federal SRE team for the Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an…

The Staff SRE, Classified Opportunity

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a technical leader within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely…

Reliability & Operations

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…

Engineering & Automation

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…

Technical Leadership

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…

Innovation

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.

Technical Excellence

Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP. Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments. Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues. Extensive…

Operational Excellence

Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems. Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements. Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning. Strong…

Leadership

Demonstrated success leading complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams. Strong collaboration and communication skills. Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple timezones and cultures.…

Preferred Qualifications

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.…

Additional requirements

U.S. soil status - the employee must be on U.S. soil, which means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101 U.S. Security Clearance status - the employee must be…

The Okta Experience

Supporting Your Well-Being Driving Social Impact Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with…

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