Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- Role
- SRE
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer needed to ensure production systems remain operational and meet long-term performance, reliability, and scalability goals. Requires strong ownership, automation focus, and experience with microservices, cloud (AWS/Azure), databases, containers, and networking. Must handle 24/7 on-call rotation.
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will champion all things pertaining to reliability at Okta for Auth0. Working closely with the Product Engineers, Quality Engineers, Platform Engineers and Architecture teams, your primary focus will be on ensuring production systems remain operational at all times, while continually setting and achieving long-term performance, reliability and scalability goals in a platform with an exponential growth plan for.
What you'll do
- Working with the other teams to run, own and improve incident response processes
- Participate in regular on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 coverage of all critical systems
- Use existing monitoring tools to identify problems and resolve and/or escalate to service teams
- Implement changes to enable or improve infrastructure resilience, monitoring, and alerting
What they require
- 3+ years as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a Cloud Operations/DevOps role
- 2+ years using golang, shell scripting and terraform
- 2+ years as software developer in a SaaS environment
- 3+ years in a production environment supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications
- Exceptional communication skills, including technical writing in the English language
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
- Understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), databases (SQL, No-SQL, Key/Value), containers (docker, kubernetes), web technologies (web sockets, http) and networking (SSL, routing, VPN)
- Live and breathe SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and SLAs
- Strong belief in automating everything and reducing toil for yourself and teammates
- Loves to work as a team, but is able to work effectively in a remote environment where tasks may be self-driven
- The role expects the member to handle 24*7 oncall (on a rotational basis) independently
Benefits
- 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 secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.