Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Observability GCP

Okta Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bellevue, WAChicago, ILNew York, NYSan Francisco, CAWashington, DC
Salary
$194,000–$267,000 / yr
Posted
16 days ago

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Above market

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This role $230k
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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 155 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Observability GCP

As a Site Reliability Engineer specializing in Observability for Google Cloud, you will join our dedicated team to enhance and scale our Observability ecosystem on GCP. Your daily tasks include designing automated infrastructure with Terraform, optimizing data collection and processing for Splunk and Grafana, participating in incident response rotations, and automating observability agent deployments. You must have at least five years of experience managing observability in Google Cloud environments, expertise in creating actionable dashboards using Splunk or Grafana, and a strong background in SRE with a focus on high-availability systems. Proficiency in Python or Go for building internal tools is essential, along with deep knowledge of Linux internals, networking, and Kubernetes/GKE orchestration. Additional skills such as experience with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Loki are highly valued.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Optimize collection, processing, and storage of Observability data in GCP.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews for continuous improvement.
  • Automate deployment and scaling of observability agents and collectors to reduce manual effort.
  • Create intuitive Splunk or Grafana dashboards correlating data from multiple sources.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 5+ years of experience scaling and managing observability in Google Cloud Platform.
  • Expertise in creating intuitive, actionable Splunk or Grafana dashboards correlating data from multiple sources.
  • At least 3 years of SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering experience focusing on high-availability systems.
  • Strong coding skills in Python or Go for building internal tools and automating workflows.
  • Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing), and Kubernetes/GKE orchestration.
  • Experience with Terraform to design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure.

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