Senior Software Engineer - SRE
Join Okta as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build reliable cloud services with a focus on automation and operational excellence.
Posted by employer 19 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 3 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), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets
- Develop software, automation, and infrastructure
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
- Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms
Nice to have
- Experience with observability platforms
- Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering
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 this role, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Okta focuses on designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure while enhancing the reliability of production systems. Key skills include expertise in AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, and programming in Go or Python, alongside a strong foundation in Infrastructure as Code. This position is suited for experienced engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges and improving operational workflows. The team emphasizes an automation-first approach, aiming to deliver secure and scalable cloud services.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Okta's careers page October 14, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Okta: Bengaluru, India.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer - SRE 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: Cassandra, Go, Kubernetes, MySQL, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Okta targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer - SRE 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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