Splunk Infrastructure Engineer
Posted by employer 8 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 6 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 9 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Staff Site Reliability Engineer for Observability at Okta focuses on enhancing the Splunk ecosystem to create a robust observability platform that supports SRE teams and business partners. This role requires expertise in Terraform and programming languages like Go, Python, or Ruby, alongside significant experience managing large-scale Splunk environments. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in SRE or DevOps, with a deep understanding of distributed systems and a proactive approach to problem-solving. Okta emphasizes a collaborative culture, making this position suitable for those eager to contribute to a mission-driven team.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 6 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 16, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page November 1, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
- Starts above 21% of 85 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $165,000 across 40 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
- Kubernetes appears in 67.4% of 184 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States; Splunk appears in 3.8% of 184 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Splunk Infrastructure Engineer role remote?
- It's hybrid — Okta expects some on-site time in Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC.
- What's the salary range?
- Okta lists $147,000–$202,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Splunk Infrastructure Engineer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Okta is hiring for this position in Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, GCP, Go, Kubernetes, Linux, OpenTelemetry.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Splunk Infrastructure Engineer role at Okta.
From the original posting
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Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly technical Splunk Infrastructure Engineer with a specialty in Splunk to own and evolve our Splunk ecosystem. In this role, you will move beyond simple monitoring to delivering a world class, comprehensive, scalable Observability Platform that enables our SRE teams and business partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Splunk Engineering: Optimize the collection, processing, and storage of log data to ensure high reliability and low latency of our Splunk services
- Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews to drive systemic improvements and "observability-driven development."
- Automation: Eliminate "toil" by automating the deployment and scaling of observability agents and collectors.
Required Skills & Experience (The Essentials)
Log Management: Minimum 5+ Experience scaling and managing Splunk Cloud at scale (1000+ SVCs), including Workload Management (WLM) and HEC optimization. Visualization: Expertise in creating intuitive, actionable Splunk dashboards that correlate data across multiple sources.
- Problem Solving: A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks.
Bonus Skills (The "Nice-to-Haves")
- Telemetry Standards: Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.
- Charge-back app: Experience in implementing Splunk charge-back app for usage reporting
Cloud Platforms: Experience managing observability native tools within AWS or GCP.
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.
- This person must attend in person onboarding in our San Francisco/Chicago office the first week of employment.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. 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.
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