Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Okta
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Leadership","Collaboration","Communication","Stakeholder management","Mentorship"]

Lead reliability strategy and architecture for Okta’s Emerging Products Group, defining standards for availability, resilience, observability, and operational excellence. Drive large-scale, cross-product reliability initiatives, partner with engineering leadership to shape roadmaps, and mentor teams while building scalable cloud infrastructure using Go/Python, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling.

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Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead reliability strategy and architecture for Okta’s Emerging Products Group, defining standards for availability, resilience, observability, and operational excellence. Drive large-scale, cross-product reliability initiatives, partner with engineering leadership to shape roadmaps, and mentor teams while building scalable cloud infrastructure using Go/Python, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and drive reliability strategy for critical product and platform services within the Emerging Products Group.
  • •Establish standards for availability, resilience, observability, incident management, and operational readiness.
  • •Lead architecture reviews for critical services and platform initiatives and align objectives with business priorities and customer expectations.
  • •Own reliability architecture and operational excellence for the Spera/ISPM product area and partner with leadership to set technical roadmaps.
  • •Lead large-scale scalability, resiliency, and performance initiatives and build self-service operational capabilities to improve developer productivity while strengthening reliability and security.

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale production systems in AWS and/or GCP.
  • •Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments and designing reliability strategies for Kubernetes-based platforms.
  • •Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
  • •Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
  • •Proven track record leading large-scale reliability transformations and architectural modernization efforts.
Experience:CloudSaaSDevOps
Skills:LeadershipCollaborationCommunicationStakeholder managementMentorship
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KubernetesEKSGKETerraformHelmGitArgoCDGitopsGoGolangPythonDatadogSplunkPostgreSQLRedisOpenSearch

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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