Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Okta Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
MarylandWashington, DC
Salary
$174,000–$238,000 / yr
Posted
88 days ago
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Above market

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This role pays more than 66% of similar roles. Most pay $144,375–$215,125 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $206k versus about $180k 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 · Staff Site Reliability Engineer

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI) joins the Federal SRE team within the Emerging Products Group to build reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services. This role involves designing and operating large-scale production infrastructure, leading incident response, and defining service level objectives. You will eliminate operational toil by developing automation, tooling, and self-service platforms while mentoring engineers on reliability principles. The position requires deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Helm, Go, and Python. You will manage distributed data platforms like PostgreSQL, Redis, and OpenSearch while ensuring compliance with FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 frameworks. The work focuses on improving observability, deployment safety, and performance for customer-facing systems in highly regulated environments, utilizing CI/CD, GitOps, and AI-assisted engineering techniques to maintain high availability.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $180200 from 121 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 to drive systemic improvements.
  • Define and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
  • Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, and Terraform.
  • Build self-service platforms and operational guardrails to improve developer velocity.
  • Mentor engineers through technical collaboration, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
  • Explore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency and troubleshooting.

What we're looking for

  • Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly.
  • Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6).
  • Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments, including networking, storage, and scheduling.
  • 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 such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, or Cassandra.
  • Experience operating SaaS platforms serving large-scale customer workloads (preferred).

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