Director, Site Reliability Engineering

Okta Inc

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$275,000–$378,400 / yr
Posted
9 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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About Okta Inc

Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[

Okta Inc currently has 91 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Director, Site Reliability Engineering

The Director, Site Reliability Engineering will lead the SRE organization supporting production fleets for emerging products including Workflows, PAM/ASA, and Inbox. This technical leadership role involves defining SRE strategies, managing global teams, and overseeing incident management, root-cause analysis, and on-call rotations. The successful candidate will build resilient, scalable, and secure services by implementing automation and observability to reduce manual toil. Key responsibilities include improving SDLC processes for cloud infrastructure, managing resource allocation, and mentoring talent. The role requires deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, specifically using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Terraform for infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines. The position addresses the technical challenge of maintaining high throughput and 99.999 availability for a global identity service that authenticates and provisions millions of users daily.

What you'll do

  • Build and lead a high-caliber SRE organization to support the production fleet.
  • Define and execute the SRE strategy in alignment with global reliability goals.
  • Lead post-incident reviews, drive root-cause analysis, and ensure long-term corrective actions.
  • Implement automation and observability to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency.
  • Drive adoption of infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, and AI within the SRE organization.
  • Hire, mentor, and develop top SRE talent while building a strong engineering culture.
  • Improve SDLC processes for Cloud infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
  • Develop robust platforms and powerful tooling to accelerate SRE and product engineering velocity.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure, or production engineering roles.
  • 8+ years of experience in technical leadership and people management, including managing managers.
  • 4+ years of experience running the SRE org supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud.
  • Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerization (Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience building and scaling offshore SRE teams that partner with global counterparts.
  • Expertise in automation, observability, performance optimization, and incident response.
  • Computer Science Degree or related degree or equivalent experience.
  • Must be physically located on US Soil (50 states, District of Columbia, or outlying areas).

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