Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Join Okta as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build reliable cloud services and improve operational excellence.
Posted by employer 4 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 days ago
Last verified on the company career page 22 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- 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 efforts and drive post-incident reviews.
- Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
- Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, and Terraform.
Must have
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
Nice to have
- Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals.
- Experience with observability platforms and monitoring strategies.
Practical constraints
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
AI in the day-to-day
Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Okta, the individual will focus on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale cloud infrastructure while ensuring high availability and reliability of production services. Key skills include expertise in AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, and proficiency in programming languages like Go and Python, alongside a strong foundation in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform. This position is suited for seasoned professionals with a background in operating customer-facing systems and a deep understanding of reliability engineering principles. The role is part of the Emerging Products Group, emphasizing automation and operational excellence.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 3 days ago — first seen on Joblaze October 2, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page October 5, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 2 other locations at Okta: Dublin, Ireland, Bengaluru, India.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Site Reliability Engineer role remote?
- It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in Bengaluru, India.
- Where is the role based?
- Okta is hiring for this position in Bengaluru, India.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Cassandra, GCP, Go, Helm, Kubernetes.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Site Reliability Engineer role at Okta.
From the original posting
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The Engineering Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely.
This role is ideal for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a key contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.
What You'll Be Doing
Reliability & 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 efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
- Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
- Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
Engineering & 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 operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
- Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities.
- Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security.
What We Are Looking For
Technical Excellence
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.
- 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 and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals 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 reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.
- Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.
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The Okta Experience
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