Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Okta is a company focused on securing identities and enabling organizations to embrace AI. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure their production systems are operational, resilient, and scalable, directly contributing to the platform's core reliability and robustness.
Responsibilities
- Design and build custom software in Go to enhance the platform's reliability, resiliency, and redundancy
- Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability principles, improving the availability, performance, and observability of our services
- Use your deep understanding of infrastructure and observability principles to identify opportunities for improvement within the product and implement solutions
- Contribute to our on-call rotation, providing rapid, effective response to critical incidents and using your expertise to troubleshoot, mitigate or accurately escalate production issues
- Develop and refine our SRE tooling and processes, focusing on automation and operational efficiency
- Define, document, and champion reliability best practices across the organisation
Skills
- A proactive and systematic approach to problem-solving, with a high degree of ownership
- Proven experience in a production environment supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications with a high degree of autonomy
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, with a preference for Go. You should be comfortable writing custom applications, not just scripts
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and GitOps (ArgoCD)
- Demonstrable expertise in a major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- A strong grasp of microservices architecture, databases (SQL, NoSQL), and networking fundamentals, so you can understand how custom code can solve platform-level issues
- An understanding of core SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Experience in an on-call rotation for a 24/7 cloud-based environment
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work effectively in a remote, distributed team, where tasks may be self-driven
Benefits
- Equity (where applicable)
- Bonus
- Benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance
- RRSP with a match
- Healthcare spending
- Telemedicine
- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
Company Overview
Okta is a management platform that secures critical resources from cloud to ground for workforce and customers. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.okta.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Okta has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 17 in 2026, 117 in 2025, 133 in 2024, 108 in 2023, 201 in 2022, 142 in 2021, 120 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.