Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Federal

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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.

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This national security role necessitates a TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance and a favorable suitability review. It is a condition of employment that you obtain and continuously maintain this clearance for eligibility for access to classified information. Any inability to uphold these security standards may lead to termination

Get to know Okta and Workforce Identity Cloud

At Okta, our motto is "Always On," and nowhere do we embrace that more than in Technical Operations. We strive to build the most reliable and performant systems on the planet through the skillful use of automation.

Okta Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) provides easy, secure access for your workforce so you can focus on other strategic priorities—like reducing costs, and doing more for your customers.

Get to know the role

Okta Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) provides easy, secure access for your workforce so you can focus on other strategic priorities—like reducing costs, and doing more for your customers.

What you’ll be doing

• Becoming deeply familiar with all the corners of a critical SaaS platform utilized by millions of customers daily.
• Working to navigate a significant replatforming initiative, seamlessly moving dozens of critical components between container orchestration systems with zero downtime or customer impact.
• Engaging w/stakeholders across the group to understand component boundaries and dependencies, and act as a guide and coach for your teammates.
• Driving what’s next for our SDLC - how do we ideate, onboard, operate, and scale microservices and features in a secure, performant, always-on manner?
• Identifying, understanding, and automating away manual processes through clever code and smart architecture.
• Supporting a 24x7 online environment as part of a global on-call rotation.
• Advocating best practices for scalable, reliable, and resilient systems and services across all of WIC engineering.

What you’ll bring to the role

• 9+ years of experience as a site reliability or platform engineer, preferably in a fast-scaling environment.
• 3+ years of experience building and operating workloads orchestrated by Kubernetes.
• Have familiarity with large scale containerised deployments, both microservice and monolithic.

• Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem.
• Are passionate about encouraging the development of engineering peers and leading by example.
• Have experience automating, securing, and scaling large-scale services in AWS and/or other cloud providers, under multiple orchestration layers such as Kubernetes, Rancher, or ECS.
• Have knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and Internet protocols.
• Have strong skills in multiple operational tooling languages such as Python, Rust, or Go.
• Deeply understand both relational and non-relational datastores, including replication and clustering strategies.

Experience in the following

• 8+ years of experience architecting and running complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources
• 8+ years of experience leveraging tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Terraform to automate and manage expansive platforms.
• 3+ years of experience operating Kubernetes-orchestrated workloads at scale.
• Strong Linux understanding and experience.
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).
• An active U.S. Government Security Clearance is preferred for this position. Candidates without an active clearance may still be considered depending on qualifications and eligibility to obtain one.
• U.S. Citizen - This national security role necessitates a TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance and a favorable suitability review. It is a condition of employment that you obtain and continuously maintain this clearance for eligibility for access to classified information. Any inability to uphold these security standards may lead to termination

Additional requirements:

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

"This role requires in-person onboarding and travel to either our San Francisco, CA HQ office or our Chicago office during the first week of employment."

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The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $217,000—$325,000 USD

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. 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: .

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between: $174,000—$262,000 USD

What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
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Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! .

Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.

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