Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Observability | Okta

Okta Inc

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Bellevue, WA · Chicago, IL · New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC Posted 85 days ago $194,000$267,000 / year

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $155,500–$211,725 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $184k 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.[

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TL;DR

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 and automating scalable observability infrastructure using Terraform, optimizing data collection and processing for Splunk and Grafana services, participating in incident response rotations, and eliminating manual tasks through automation. You must have extensive experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and expertise in creating actionable dashboards with Splunk or Grafana. Additionally, you should possess strong coding skills in Python or Go, a deep understanding of distributed systems, and a data-driven approach to problem-solving. Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Loki is beneficial, as is experience managing observability tools on AWS.

Skills

Google Cloud Terraform Go Python Ruby Splunk Grafana Kubernetes Linux TCP/IP DNS Load Balancing OpenTelemetry Grafana Loki AWS

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, 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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