Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Okta · Posted Oct 29
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta secures identity for AI and human users by building trusted, neutral infrastructure. The TDI Infrastructure Engineering team runs internal platforms on AWS that are increasingly Kubernetes-native and expanding to support AI-driven workflows. This Senior SRE role builds and operates the Kubernetes-based platform, improves reliability and automation, and supports reliable production hosting of AI-driven internal workflows.
What you will do
- Building, operating, and improving our Kubernetes platform — cluster management, networking, security posture, and day-2 operations
- Developing self-service capabilities, golden paths, and automation that let internal teams onboard and operate workflows with less platform expertise required
- Supporting the platform's readiness to host AI-driven internal workflows reliably at scale
- Troubleshooting and resolving production issues, including participating in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation shared with SRE peers in the US and India, and driving postmortems for incidents you own
- Contributing to and upholding reliability practices — SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and operational runbooks
- Improving CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices, including change and release management
- Building and maintaining observability and monitoring coverage for the systems you own
- Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to design and code reviews
- Collaborating with the India team to align local implementation with the broader global platform strategy
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production — deployment, networking, security, and troubleshooting
- Experience operating large-scale internal infrastructure platforms in a public cloud, preferably AWS
- Solid experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions)
- Strong proficiency in Python or similar scripting and programming languages.
- Exposure to or interest in building infrastructure that hosts AI/ML or agentic workflows
- Experience with observability platforms and monitoring tools (Grafana, Splunk, APM, or equivalent)
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, evolving environment with ambiguity around process and tooling
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across time zones
- Computer Science degree or related field, or equivalent experience
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to internal developer platform (IDP) concepts or "platform as a product" thinking
- Hands-on experience with AI agent orchestration, vector databases, model routing, or inference infrastructure
- Multi-cloud experience (AWS plus Azure or GCP)
- Service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux)
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD) or equivalent cloud certifications
- Experience administering an enterprise-scale SCM platform (GitHub, GitLab, or equivalent)
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Okta
Okta is a leading independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions that securely connect people and technologies to the right applications. The company powers both Workforce Identity and Customer Identity platforms, allowing organizations to securely manage user access and navigate modern challenges like agentic AI security.
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Company size
- 7500+ employees
- Founded
- 2009
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $228M raised
- 2010-02-01Series A$10M
- 2011-08-01Series B$16.5M
- 2012-12-01Series C$25M
- 2013-09-01Series D$27M
- 2014-06-01Series E$75M
- 2015-09-01Series F$75M
- 2018-02-21Post IPO Debt$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Legal Officer
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