Staff Site Reliability Engineer
- Company
- Okta
- Location
- Maryland / Washington, DC
- Job type
- Full Time
- Salary
- ৳1813k - ৳2479k per month
- Deadline
- 2026-12-24
Job description
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 with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.
The ideal candidate exemplifies the philosophy of "if you have to do it more than once, automate it" and possesses a strong passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and software engineering.
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 (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.