Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. 

Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The Engineering  Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta in our Emerging Products Group. At Okta our motto is "Always On", and nowhere do we embrace that more than in Okta’s Infrastructure Platform pillar. We strive to build the most reliable and performant systems on the planet through the skillful use of automation. We've created an integrated system that securely connects any person via any device to the technologies they need to do their most significant work. 

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working on large scale cloud production systems and gains pride from seeing those systems handle anything the Internet can throw at them. This person will be a core team member of our EPG SRE team.

If you like to be challenged and have a passion for solving problems at scale with modern tooling, automation, testing, and tuning, then we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate is someone who exemplifies the ethics of, “If you have to do something more than once, automate it,” and who can rapidly self-educate on new concepts and tools. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Design, build, and operate Okta's global production infrastructure
• Daily coding, scripting, and development - Go, Python, Terraform, etc.
• Support a highly available and large scale multi-cloud environment as part of an on-call rotation
• Engage with engineering teams across the company, guiding and empowering them to adopt best practices for reliable and secure service deployment.
• Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads, aligning them with our continuous platform improvements.
• Identify manual processes and drive the development of cutting-edge automation tools to streamline operations.
• Contribute to our mission of building a more robust, elegant, and scalable system through the creation of innovative tools, platform capabilities, and comprehensive documentation.
• Demonstrate your expertise by responding swiftly and efficiently to production incidents, diving deep into complex systems failures to drive team and organization learning, and pushing forward technical and process improvements.

What we are looking for

• A strong individual contributor who leads by example
• Expertise with AWS and/or GCP required, multi-cloud experience is highly desirable
• Technical excellence with Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, kOps, etc) deployments in cloud environments, and the ability to tackle containerization challenges for large, complex workloads
• A proven track record of successful SRE engagements, collaborating closely with engineering teams across a wide range of infrastructure domains
• Proficiency in distributed systems design, with a comprehensive understanding of failure modes, benefits, and potential drawbacks
• Strong expertise with operating customer-facing production services
• Extensive experience with configuration management tools like Helm and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Familiarity with DevOps culture and practices and experience with CI/CD toolchains
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, particularly Golang or Python
• In-depth knowledge of various types of data stores, particularly PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch
• Passionate about automation
• Deep background in Linux systems administration
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and IP protocols

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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, 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/can.

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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