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Okta · 4 months ago

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Bellevue, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$168K/yr - $227K/yr

Okta is The World’s Identity Company, specializing in secure access and authentication solutions. They are seeking a highly skilled Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and maintain reliable and scalable infrastructure for their security SaaS offerings while collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance and security.

CRMEnterprise SoftwareIdentity ManagementIT InfrastructureManagement Information SystemsSoftwareWeb Development

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that underpins our security SaaS offerings, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability. This includes building and operating the tooling for our Snowflake data systems

Develop robust automation using code to eliminate toil and ensure consistency across our environments. You'll be a key driver in automating everything from infrastructure provisioning to application deployment and incident response

Work closely with our security teams to embed a security-first mindset into all our processes and infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring our systems and data platforms are compliant with industry standards

Participate in on-call rotations and be a primary responder for critical incidents, leading root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures to ensure issues don't recur

Partner with development, data science, and security teams to provide expert guidance on architectural decisions, best practices, and the implementation of new services

Qualification

Coding SkillsInfrastructure as CodeContainerization & OrchestrationData SystemsContinuous DeliveryDatabase MigrationsAI/ML ExperienceProblem-Solving

Required

Strong Coding Skills: You are a developer at heart and are comfortable writing production-level code to solve complex operational challenges

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep experience with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure and services

Continuous Delivery: Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and tools, particularly Spinnaker, to automate and standardize our release pipelines

Containerization & Orchestration: Expertise in container technologies and hands-on experience managing large-scale, production-ready clusters with Kubernetes

Database Migrations: Experience with database schema management tools like Flyway for safely and reliably handling database changes

Data Systems: Direct experience with large-scale data systems, specifically with the Snowflake platform

Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential issues

This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire

This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office or our Chicago Office during the first week of employment

Preferred

AI/ML Experience (a plus): Experience or a strong interest in AI/ML, particularly how these technologies can be applied to improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency (e.g., AIOps, predictive analysis)