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Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Lead a high-performing team of SREs to enhance Okta's IDaaS platform with a focus on reliability and efficiency.

Location
Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC
Compensation
$204k–$306k/yr
Level
lead
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 3 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 3 months ago

Last verified on the company career page 7 hours ago

Role intensity

10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy

Requirements

Experience
3+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Equity/Stock Options Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In the role of Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Okta, the individual will lead multiple teams focused on enhancing the infrastructure and reliability of the IDaaS platform. Key skills include expertise in cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and CI/CD processes, with a strong emphasis on Agile and DevOps methodologies. This position is ideal for someone with significant technical leadership experience, particularly in managing large-scale cloud services. The team is dedicated to building a robust infrastructure that supports Okta's mission of securing identities in an evolving digital landscape.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about 3 months ago — first seen on Joblaze July 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page October 8, 2026.
  • Salary band is above the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
  • Starts above 91% of 11 comparable lead devops/sre roles we track (median $182,000 across 9 companies).

Quick facts

Is the Manager, Site Reliability Engineering role remote?
It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC.
What's the salary range?
Okta lists $204,000–$306,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Manager, Site Reliability Engineering role.
Where is the role based?
Okta is hiring for this position in Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: APM, AWS, CI/CD, Grafana, Kubernetes, Splunk.
What seniority level is this role?
Okta targets lead candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Manager, Site Reliability Engineering role at Okta.

From the original posting

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

San Francisco, California

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

**This position requires 2 days a week in our San Francisco Office.

The IDaaS Site Reliability Engineering Group

Okta authenticates, authorizes and provisions millions of users a day. The service is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple availability zones and geographically separated regions. The service is designed for high throughput and 99.999 availability. We're looking for a technical leader to help us continue to scale the service with great people and reliable, cost-effective, and efficient infrastructure, processes, and tooling.

As the Manager of Infrastructure Platform and Shared Services, you will oversee multiple teams focused on Edge networking, K8s platform, CI/CD, Observability, automation platform & tooling.

What you’ll be doing

  • Managing a team of SRE’s supporting various workloads and teams that support our IDaaS platform.
  • Drive the microservice journey, DevOps maturity, and workload reliability in tandem with architects and teams across the organization.
  • Accelerate the velocity of SRE and product engineering by developing powerful tooling, intuitive self-service capabilities, and robust self-healing patterns.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers and managers across platform, infrastructure, and shared services domains.
  • Perform engineering design evaluations and ensure the completion of projects within resource, budget, and scheduling constraints.
  • Improve SDLC processes for Cloud infrastructure as a code, including the maturity of CI/CD pipelines, change and release management
  • Manage service and business expectations and prioritize resource allocation
  • Maintain a deep knowledge of industry best practices, evolving trends, and technologies

What you’ll bring to the role

  • 3+ years of experience in technical leadership & people management
  • Extensive experience using Agile and DevOps methodologies to build product infrastructure and shared service at scale
  • Experience running large-scale infrastructure platforms supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud, preferably AWS. Experience supporting a multi-Cloud environment will be a plus.
  • Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerization (Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong background and hands-on experience in SW development, PaaS and automation
  • Deep experience with building and operating observability platforms and monitoring tools (Grafana, Splunk, APM etc.) in a large scale environment.
  • Effective verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills
  • Computer Science Degree or related degree or equivalent experience 

Additional requirements:

  • This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. 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 the San Francisco Bay area is between:
$204,000—$306,000 USD

The Okta Experience

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