Okta
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI)
Washington, DC · Staff+
No sponsorship$174k-$238kDetected 7 hours ago
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About the role
- Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.
- This is an opportunity to do career-defining work.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
- Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
- Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
- Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities.
- Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security.
- Lead complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers through technical collaboration, design reviews, incident analysis, and knowledge sharing.
- Drive projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership.
- Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
Nice to have
- Experience operating SaaS platforms serving large-scale customer workloads.
- Experience working within Kubernetes-based microservices environments.
- Experience supporting globally distributed production environments.
- Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD.
- Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling or automation workflows.
- Additional requirements:
- U.S. soil status - the employee must be on U.S. soil, which means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101
- U.S. Security Clearance status - the employee must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.
Compensation
- Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington.
Company info
- We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
- The Federal SRE Team We are looking for an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Federal SRE team for the Emerging Products Group (EPG).
- If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Security Clearance: Active U
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