Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $151,678–$214,625 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $183k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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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As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes, you will join the engineering team to build and manage high-availability Kubernetes platforms supporting cloud-native applications. You will be responsible for architecting scalable infrastructure on AWS, managing EKS, ECS, S3, VPCs, and RDS while optimizing for cost and performance. Your daily work involves creating Helm charts, implementing Karpenter for dynamic scaling, and configuring Istio service mesh for traffic management and observability. To succeed, you must possess expertise in Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Go. You will also utilize monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack to ensure system reliability. This role focuses on solving complex infrastructure challenges by automating deployment workflows and maintaining secure, multi-region cloud environments for large-scale production workloads.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.
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