Okta is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Automated Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
• GCP Observabilty Engineering: Optimize the collection, processing, and storage of Observabilty data to ensure high reliability and low latency of our Splunk and Grafana services
• Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews to drive systemic improvements and 'observability-driven development.'
• Automation: Eliminate 'toil' by automating the deployment and scaling of observability agents and collectors.

Requirements

• GKE: Minimum 5+ Experience scaling and managing observability in a Google Cloud platform.
• Visualization: Expertise in creating intuitive, actionable Splunk or Grafana dashboards that correlate data across multiple sources.
• SRE Mindset: Minimum 3+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role with a focus on high-availability systems.
• Programming Proficiency: Strong coding skills in Python, Go for building internal tools and automating workflows.
• Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE).
• Problem Solving: A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks.

Nice to Have

• Telemetry Standards: Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.
• Grafana Loki: Experience in migrating Splunk to Grafana Loki
• Other Cloud Platforms: Experience managing observability native tools within AWS.

Benefits

• equity (where applicable)
• bonus
• health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• flexible spending account
• paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)