Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Okta Inc

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$165,000–$226,600 / yr
Posted
12 days ago
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This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $144,375–$214,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $196k versus about $179k for comparable roles.

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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 103 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $174,000–$238,000 across 103 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer - EPG joins the Emerging Products Group to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services. This role involves designing and operating large-scale production infrastructure, participating in global on-call rotations, and leading incident response efforts. You will define and improve Service Level Indicators, manage error budgets, and ensure FedRAMP compliance. Key responsibilities include developing automation to eliminate operational toil and improving deployment safety through CI/CD and GitOps practices. You will utilize a technical stack including Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Golang, Python, and Rust. Additionally, you will manage observability using Datadog, Splunk, and Graphana while supporting data stores like PostgreSQL and Redis. The work focuses on solving complex reliability challenges for customer-facing systems within a highly regulated environment.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
  • Participate in a global on-call rotation to support highly available customer-facing systems.
  • Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews to implement systemic improvements.
  • Define and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
  • Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
  • Build self-service platforms and operational guardrails to improve developer velocity and reliability.
  • Ensure all infrastructure and operational practices adhere to FedRAMP compliance and security mandates.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on operational best practices and reliability engineering principles.

What we're looking for

  • Must be a US Person (US Citizen or Green Card Holder) to meet FedRAMP compliance.
  • Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
  • Deep expertise with Linux and Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
  • Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms like PostgreSQL, Redis, or OpenSearch.
  • Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.
  • Security clearance standards.

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