About the Job
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...
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box, we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Required Skills & Abilities
Infrastructure/Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Terraform, Helm, Git, ArgoCD, Gitops
Programming: Golang, Python
Observability: Datadog, Splunk
Data Stores: PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch
Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale production systems in AWS and/or GCP.
Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
Experience designing reliability strategies for Kubernetes-based platforms.
Strong expertise troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle challenges.
Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, and operational automation.
Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and cloud-native application design.
Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, service discovery, ingress, load balancing, TLS, traffic management, and multi-region architectures.
Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
Experience establishing observability standards, monitoring strategies, and operational best practices across engineering organizations.
Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.
Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems at scale.
Deep understanding of reliability engineering principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and resilience engineering.
Experience leading major incident response efforts and driving long-term operational improvements.
Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.
Proven success driving large-scale reliability transformations and architectural modernization efforts.
Ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, customer experience, and engineering velocity.
Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.
Experience operating systems within security-sensitive or regulated environments is a plus.
Familiarity with operational controls, compliance requirements, and security best practices in cloud-native environments.
Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams and organizations.
Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and influence engineering outcomes across multiple organizations and leadership teams.
Proven ability to influence technical direction without direct organizational authority.
Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple timezones and cultures.
Strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience mentoring Staff engineers and helping develop future technical leaders.
Ability to translate business objectives into technical strategy and measurable reliability outcomes.
Experience working closely with engineering leadership, architects, and product leaders to drive organizational change.
Experience operating SaaS platforms serving millions of users.
Experience supporting globally distributed production environments.
Experience leading platform engineering or reliability transformation initiatives.
Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling, agentic workflows, or intelligent automation platforms.
Prior experience as a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior technical leader in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Operations.
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