Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Okta Inc

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Washington, DC
Salary
$174,000–$238,000 / yr
Posted
42 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k
This role $206k
$133k most similar roles pay here $249k

This role pays more than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $150,537–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $206k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

Based on 238 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 · Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI) joins the Federal SRE team within the Emerging Products Group to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services. This role involves designing, building, and operating large-scale infrastructure while leading incident response efforts and improving service availability through defined SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. The engineer will eliminate operational toil by developing automation, tools, and platform engineering solutions using Go, Python, Terraform, and Helm. Key responsibilities include managing Kubernetes environments, troubleshooting distributed data platforms like PostgreSQL or Redis, and enhancing observability through metrics and logging. Candidates must navigate FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 compliance frameworks while utilizing CI/CD and GitOps practices. The role focuses on solving complex reliability challenges for secure identity infrastructure, specifically addressing the technical requirements of high-security government environments.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to support highly available customer-facing systems.
  • Lead incident response efforts and conduct post-incident reviews for systemic improvements.
  • Define and improve service level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
  • Develop automation, tooling, and infrastructure using Go, Python, and Terraform.
  • Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
  • Mentor engineers on reliability principles and conduct technical design reviews.
  • Explore and implement AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency.

What we're looking for

  • Must possess an active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance with Full Scope Poly.
  • Must have proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6).
  • Must be located on U.S. soil as defined by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101.
  • Requires extensive experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP environments.
  • Requires deep expertise with Kubernetes, including troubleshooting networking, storage, scheduling, and scaling.
  • Requires strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python to develop automation and infrastructure.
  • Requires proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Helm.
  • Must have experience managing distributed data platforms like PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, or Cassandra.

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