Senior Site Reliability Engineer (FedRAMP)

Technical Excellence

• Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
• Deep expertise with Linux and 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.

Operational Excellence

• Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems subject to SLA
• Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.
• Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.
• Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.
• This role supports US FedRAMP projects and requires the employee to be a US Person (US Citizen or Green Card Holder) to meet FedRAMP compliance and security clearance standards.

Security & Compliance

• Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.
• Experience implementing operational controls, compliance standards (e.g., FedRAMP, SOC2, HIPAA), and best practices in highly regulated or security-sensitive government cloud environments is highly preferred.

Leadership

• Demonstrated success contributing to complex engineering initiatives.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple timezones and cultures.
• Experience collaborating with engineers and contributing to technical capabilities within an organization.
• Ability to influence technical direction through expertise, partnership, and execution.
• 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.

#LI-SM1

#LI-Hybrid

P22415_3261422

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$165,000—$227,000 USD

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, 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 base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between:

$147,000—$202,000 USD

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 an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity 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 complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.

Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

• Infrastructure/Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Terraform, Helm, Git, ArgoCD, GitOps
• Data Stores: PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Snowflake