Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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. Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for DevSecOps , Infrastructure Security , and SRE . Join a team that is not just building solutions but redefining the standards for cloud security. If you have a proven background in securing large-scale, critical infrastructure, we want to talk to you.Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing Security solutions to harden our cloud infrastructure. We embrace innovation and pave the way to transform bright ideas into excellent security solutions that help run large-scale, critical infrastructure. We encourage you to prescribe defense-in-depth measures, industry security standards and enforce the principle of least privilege to help take our Security posture to the next level. Our Infrastructure Security team has a niche skill-set that balances Security domain expertise with the ability to design, implement, and roll out infrastructure across multiple cloud environments without adding friction to product functionality or performance. We are responsible for the ever-growing need to improve our customer safety and privacy by providing security services that are coupled with the core Okta product. This is a high-impact role in a security-centric, fast-paced organization that is poised for massive growth and success. You will act as a liaison between the Security org and the Engineering org to build technical leverage and influence the security roadmap. You will focus on engineering security aspects of the systems used across our services. Join us and be part of a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever. As a Staff Engineer, you should be able to identify gaps, propose innovative solutions, and contribute to roadmaps while driving alignment across multiple teams within the organization. Additionally, you should serve as a role model, providing technical mentorship to junior team members and fostering a culture of learning and growth. You will work on: Building, running, and monitoring Okta's production infrastructure. Being an evangelist for security best practices and also leading initiatives/projects to strengthen our security posture for critical infrastructure. Responding to production incidents and determining how we can prevent them in the future. Triaging and troubleshooting complex production issues to ensure reliability and performance. Identifying and automating manual processes. Continuously evolving our monitoring tools and platform. Promoting and applying best practices for building scalable and reliable services across engineering. Developing and maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and procedures. Supporting a 24x7 online environment as part of an on-call rotation. Be a technical SME for a team that designs and builds Okta's production infrastructure, focusing on security at scale in the cloud. You are an ideal candidate if you: Have 8+ years experience in DevSecOps or Cloud infrastructure security. Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem. Have experience automating, securing, and running large-scale production IAM and containerized services in AWS (EC ... (truncated, view full listing at source)