Senior Site Reliability Engineer (FedRAMP)

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

The Engineering Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a key contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.

The ideal candidate exemplifies the philosophy of "if you have to do it more than once, automate it" and possesses a strong passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and software engineering.

Reliability & Operations

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.

• Participate in a global on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.

• Participate in incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.

• Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.

• Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.

• Ensure all infrastructure and operational practices adhere to strict FedRAMP compliance and security mandates, maintaining continuous audit readiness.

• Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.

Engineering & Automation

• Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.

• Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering.

• Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.

• Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform