Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Okta
Bellevue, Chicago, New York, Washington
Workplace: HybridFull time147,000 - 202,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Node.js","Golang","Datadog","OpenTelemetry","Terraform","Docker","Kubernetes","AWS","Google Cloud","Azure"]

Senior Observability Engineer on the Auth0 Platform Observability team responsible for instrumenting and observing the platform, driving high-availability design, and leading cross-team initiatives to improve telemetry, using tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Terraform to monitor metrics, logs, and traces in production.

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Okta
Okta
2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Observability

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Job Summary

Senior Observability Engineer on the Auth0 Platform Observability team responsible for instrumenting and observing the platform, driving high-availability design, and leading cross-team initiatives to improve telemetry, using tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Terraform to monitor metrics, logs, and traces in production.
Location: Bellevue, Chicago, New York, Washington
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Champion observability best practices and educate teams on robust instrumentation and standardized telemetry.
  • •Be an expert in running services in production environments and contribute to high-growth, high-availability designs.
  • •Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services to support production systems.
  • •Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using Terraform.
  • •Actively participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify gaps in telemetry tooling.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: 147,000 - 202,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience.
  • •Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
  • •Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem (Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking), including establishing alerting standards, implementing tagging taxonomies, and managing Datadog configurations via Terraform.
  • •Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang.
  • •Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience:5+ yearsCloudSREDevOpsObservability
Skills:Node.jsGolangDatadogOpenTelemetryTerraformDockerKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudAzure
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Node.jsGolangDatadogOpenTelemetryTerraformDockerKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudAzure

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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