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The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will serve as a technical leader on the National Security team, focusing on delivering secure, air-gapped solutions for federal partners. Key responsibilities include designing AWS-based projects, managing production incidents, and mentoring junior engineers to ensure high-quality operational standards.
Salary Range
$188k - $259k/year
Experience Level
Senior Level
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Core IDaaS w/ active TS/SCI
Posted 3 weeks ago
Full-Time
Employment Type
Remote
Work Location
$188,000 - $258,500
per year
About This Role
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.
About Okta
Okta is the leading independent identity partner, securely connecting the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 20,000 customers and a billion registered users, we provide the foundation for secure enterprise management and seamless user experiences. As a trusted U.S. Federal vendor, we maintain FedRAMP High and IL4 compliance to support the government’s most critical missions.
The Core IDaaS SRE Team
Our team spans the globe and Okta’s platform to build, deliver, and maintain Okta’s legendary resiliency and reliability. We’re the SME’s for a vast number of synchronous and asynchronous workloads, data stores, and deployments, running the majority of our customer-facing Identity-as-a-Service platform. You’ll act as an advocate for reliability and a guide for global scale, ensuring our product is always available, always secure, and Always On.
The Role
We are seeking a
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (TS/SCI)
to join our high-stakes National Security team. Based in the
Washington, D.C. area
,
with on-site customer travel
, you will serve as a technical leader, delivering secure, air-gapped solutions for our federal partners.
Security Requirement
Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.
The selected candidate may be subject to drug testing to the extent required by U.S. Government contracts.
What You’ll Do
Cloud & Air-gapped Infrastructure
Design and deliver AWS-based projects, primarily writing
Terraform, Helm, and Go,
and adapting our existing deployments for secure federal air-gapped environments.
Incident Management
Respond and remediate production incidents, performing deep-dive troubleshooting, driving rapid response, and implementing permanent preventive solutions.
Engineering Standards
Drive high-quality code and operational rigor through design reviews, code reviews, attention to detail, and deep technical expertise.
Technical Leadership
Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the organization to deliver secure, enterprise-grade solutions.
What You’ll Bring
Core Qualifications
Security Clearance
Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance.
Compliance Expertise
Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically
FedRAMP
and
Impact Level 6 (IL6)
.
Domain Authority
Deep expertise in architecting, deploying, and optimizing software within
federal air-gapped environments
.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (Master’s degree preferred).
Technical Expertise
Site Reliability Engineering
6+ years of professional experience running production cloud workloads at scale. 4+ years of experience developing and troubleshooting web services on
Kubernetes
or similar orchestration layers.
Broad Database Knowledge
Significant hands-on experience with both relational and non-relational datastores.
Interactive And Batch Workloads
Demonstrated success delivering and maintaining both customer-facing interactive workloads and large-scale batch processing – ideally using data warehouse products such as Snowflake, Redshift, or Databricks.
Security & Engineering
Strong foundational knowledge of network security (authentication/authorization) and a commitment to rigorous software engineering best practices.
Industry Experience
Prior experience supporting or building mission-critical
Enterprise SaaS
platforms.
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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. 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:
https://rewards.okta.com/us
.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:
$188,000
—
$258,500 USD
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
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Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
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!
https://www.okta.com/company/careers/
.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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Compensation
$188,000 - $258,500
Annual salary
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