Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Engineering Opportunity

Reliability and 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 and post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
• Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.

Engineering and 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 workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
• Modernize existing workloads and align them with evolving platform capabilities.
• Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation for developer velocity, reliability, and security.

Technical Excellence

• Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
• Deep production expertise with Kubernetes, including networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle troubleshooting.
• 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 distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, 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.
• Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.
• Deep understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operations.
• Ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.

Workplace

• The role is associated with a hybrid work arrangement.
• Okta provides an immersive, in-person onboarding experience.