Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI)

Okta
Washington
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 174,000 - 238,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Continuous improvement","Operational excellence","Incident leadership","Collaboration","Mentoring"]

Build and operate highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services for Okta’s Federal SRE team (Emerging Products Group). Lead incident response and post-incident improvements, define SLI/SLOs and error budgets, and enhance observability across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting. Drive automation-first engineering using Go, Python, Terraform, CI/CD, and GitOps, while mentoring engineers and influencing operational and architecture decisions. Work with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and distributed data systems in a classified environment.

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Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI)

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Job Summary

Build and operate highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services for Okta’s Federal SRE team (Emerging Products Group). Lead incident response and post-incident improvements, define SLI/SLOs and error budgets, and enhance observability across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting. Drive automation-first engineering using Go, Python, Terraform, CI/CD, and GitOps, while mentoring engineers and influencing operational and architecture decisions. Work with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and distributed data systems in a classified environment.
Location: Washington
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services for customer-facing systems.
  • •Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response, driving post-incident reviews and systemic improvements.
  • •Define, measure, and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to strengthen reliability and performance.
  • •Develop automation and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, CI/CD, and GitOps to reduce toil and improve deployment safety.
  • •Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, mentoring engineers and influencing architectural and operational decisions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 174,000 - 238,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kFlexible SpendingPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
  • •Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production, including troubleshooting networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.
  • •Extensive Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and Helm.
  • •Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python, plus experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.
  • •Experience operating distributed data platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra) and strong observability/production telemetry practices.
Experience:SaaSCloud servicesKubernetesDistributed systemsDistributed dataPlatform engineering
Skills:Continuous improvementOperational excellenceIncident leadershipCollaborationMentoring
Languages:En
Tech Stack:GoGolangPythonTerraformHelmKubernetesAWSGCPCI/CDGitOpsArgoCDArgo CDPostgreSQLRedisOpenSearchMySQLCassandraDNSLoad balancingIngress

Eligibility

Security Clearance:TS/SCIFull Scope Poly

Company Brief

Okta
Provides identity and access management cloud solutions that help organizations secure and manage user authentication, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management across applications and devices.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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