Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Okta Inc

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$165,000–$227,000 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $183k
This role $196k
$134k most similar roles pay here $237k

This role pays more than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $196k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 137 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $174,000–$239,000 across 137 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (FedRAMP) joins the Emerging Products Group to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services. The role involves designing, building, and operating large-scale infrastructure while managing a global on-call rotation for customer-facing systems. Key responsibilities include incident response, defining SLIs and SLOs, improving observability through metrics and logging, and eliminating operational toil via automation. The candidate will develop software and infrastructure using Go, Python, Rust, Terraform, and Helm within Kubernetes environments like EKS or GKE. They will also manage data stores such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and OpenSearch while ensuring all practices meet strict FedRAMP compliance mandates. This position focuses on the technical challenge of maintaining high availability and security for cloud services in highly regulated government environments, utilizing GitOps, ArgoCD, and AI-assisted engineering techniques to enhance operational efficiency.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
  • Participate in global on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts to drive systemic improvements.
  • Define and improve service level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
  • Develop automation, tooling, and platform engineering solutions using Go, Python, and Terraform.
  • Ensure all infrastructure and operations comply with strict FedRAMP security mandates and audit requirements.
  • Improve observability through the management of metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting systems.
  • Build self-service platforms and guardrails to improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on operational best practices.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must be a US Person (US Citizen or Green Card Holder) to meet FedRAMP compliance standards.
  • Experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP is required.
  • Deep expertise with Linux and Kubernetes in production environments is required.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python are required.
  • Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Helm is required.
  • Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms like PostgreSQL, Redis, or OpenSearch is required.
  • Experience implementing compliance standards like FedRAMP or SOC2 in regulated environments is preferred.
  • Security clearance standards.

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