Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Core IDaaS w/ active TS/SCI

Washington, DCFull-TimeStaffDevOps

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Okta is the leading independent identity partner, securely connecting the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 20,000 customers and a billion registered users, we provide the foundation for secure enterprise management and seamless user experiences. As a trusted U.S. Federal vendor, we maintain FedRAMP High and IL4 compliance to support the government’s most critical missions.

Our team spans the globe and Okta’s platform to build, deliver, and maintain Okta’s legendary resiliency and reliability. We’re the SME’s for a vast number of synchronous and asynchronous workloads, data stores, and deployments, running the majority of our customer-facing Identity-as-a-Service platform. You’ll act as an advocate for reliability and a guide for global scale, ensuring our product is always available, always secure, and Always On.

The selected candidate may be subject to drug testing to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.

Cloud & Air-Gapped Infrastructure: Design and deliver AWS-based projects, primarily writing Terraform, Helm, and Go, and adapting our existing deployments for secure federal air-gapped environments.
Incident Management: Respond and remediate production incidents, performing deep-dive troubleshooting, driving rapid response, and implementing permanent preventive solutions.
Engineering Standards: Drive high-quality code and operational rigor through design reviews, code reviews, attention to detail, and deep technical expertise.
Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the organization to deliver secure, enterprise-grade solutions.

Security Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance.
Compliance Expertise: Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6).
Domain Authority: Deep expertise in architecting, deploying, and optimizing software within federal air-gapped environments.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (Master’s degree preferred).

Site Reliability Engineering: 6+ years of professional experience running production cloud workloads at scale. 4+ years of experience developing and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes or similar orchestration layers.
Broad Database Knowledge: Significant hands-on experience with both relational and non-relational datastores.
Interactive and Batch Workloads: Demonstrated success delivering and maintaining both customer-facing interactive workloads and large-scale batch processing – ideally using data warehouse products such as Snowflake, Redshift, or Databricks.
Security & Engineering: Strong foundational knowledge of network security (authentication/authorization) and a commitment to rigorous software engineering best practices.

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

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