Staff Site Reliability - Data and Security

Okta
Bellevue, WashingtonPosted 5 March 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Get to know Okta<br><br></strong></span>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.</p></div><h2><strong>Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Security and Data Systems</strong></h2> <p>Our company is seeking a highly skilled Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. We are a SaaS company specializing in securing large-scale systems. This role is a blend of software engineering and systems administration, where you'll be responsible for building and maintaining highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure. You will be a key contributor, applying your expertise to automate manual processes and proactively solve complex problems before they become incidents, handling incidents, and includes on-call shifts.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Platform Reliability:</strong> Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that underpins our security SaaS offerings, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability. This includes building and operating the tooling for our Snowflake data systems.</li> <li><strong>Automation:</strong> Develop robust automation using code to eliminate toil and ensure consistency across our environments. You'll be a key driver in automating everything from infrastructure provisioning to application deployment and incident response.</li> <li><strong>Security Compliance:</strong> Work closely with our security teams to embed a security-first mindset into all our processes and infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring our systems and data platforms are compliant with industry standards.</li> <li><strong>Incident Response:</strong> Participate in on-call rotations and be a primary responder for critical incidents, leading root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures to ensure issues don't recur.</li> <li><strong>Collaboration:</strong> Partner with development, data science, and security teams to provide expert guidance on architectural decisions, best practices, and the implementation of new services.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Key Skills Qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Strong Coding Skills:</strong> You are a developer at heart and are comfortable writing production-level code to solve complex operational challenges.</li> <li><strong>Infrastructure as Code (IaC):</strong> Deep experience with <strong>Terraform</strong> for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure and services.</li> <li><strong>Continuous Delivery:</strong> Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and tools, particularly <strong>Spinnaker</strong>, to automate and standardize our release pipelines.</li> <li><strong>Containerization Orchestration:</strong> Expertise in container technologies and hands-on experience managing large-scale, production-ready clusters with <strong>Kubernetes</strong>.</li> <li><strong>Database Migrations:</strong> Experience with database schema management tools like <strong>Flyway</strong> for safely and reliably handling database changes.</li> <li><strong>Data Systems:</strong> Direct experience with large-scale data systems, specifically with the <strong>Snowflake</strong> platform.</li> <li><strong>AI/ML Experience (a plus):</strong> Experience or a strong interest in AI/ML, particularly how these technologies can be applied to improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency (e. ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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