Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Okta

Get to know Okta Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth. 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. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you. What you’ll be doing • Becoming deeply familiar with all the corners of a critical SaaS platform utilized by millions of customers daily. • Working to navigate a significant replatforming initiative, seamlessly moving dozens of critical components between container orchestration systems with zero downtime or customer impact. • Engaging w/stakeholders across the group to understand component boundaries and dependencies, and act as a guide and coach for your teammates. • Driving what’s next for our SDLC - how do we ideate, onboard, operate, and scale microservices and features in a secure, performant, always-on manner? • Identifying, understanding, and automating away manual processes through clever code and smart architecture. • Supporting a 24x7 online environment as part of a global on-call rotation. • Advocating best practices for scalable, reliable, and resilient systems and services across all of WIC engineering. What you’ll bring to the role • 8+ years of experience as a site reliability or platform engineer, preferably in a fast-scaling environment • Have familiarity with large scale containerized microservice and monolithic deployments • Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem. • Are passionate about encouraging the development of engineering peers and leading by example. • Have experience automating, securing, and scaling large-scale services in AWS and/or other cloud providers, under multiple orchestration layers such as Kubernetes, Rancher, or ECS. • Have knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and Internet protocols. • Have strong skills in at least one operational tooling language such as Python, Rust, or Go. • Understand both relational and non-relational datastores, including replication and clustering strategies. Experience in the following • 5+ years of experience architecting and running complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources • 5+ years of experience with Ansible, Chef, Terraform or other IaC tools • Strong Linux understanding and experience. • BS In computer science (or equivalent experience). P19322_3342529 #LI-Hybrid What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee! • Amazing Benefits • Making Social Impact • Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. 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. Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice at [Upgrade to PRO to see link]