Senior Software Engineer - SRE

Okta
Bengaluru, India

Who this role is best for

Candidates with cloud infrastructure experience and automation expertise will find this senior role in Bengaluru ideal for driving operational excellence in a collaborative, mission-driven environment.

Best fit for

  • Experienced SREs with a track record in Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure operations
    — “Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments”
  • Individuals who thrive in collaborative settings with software engineers and product teams
    — “Partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams”
  • Candidates who enjoy building self-service platforms and reducing operational toil
    — “Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering”

Things to consider

  • On-call rotation is expected for customer-facing systems, which may require availability outside regular hours
    — “Participate in an on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems”
  • The role demands a balance between reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity
    — “Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with large-scale cloud services and incident response leadership
    — “Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements”
  • Showcase a history of developing automation and internal engineering platforms
    — “Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms”
  • Emphasize work with distributed data platforms like PostgreSQL, Redis, or Cassandra
    — “Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies”
  • Demonstrate mastery of Terraform and Helm for infrastructure as code
    — “Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm”
  • Quantify contributions to improving service availability and performance metrics
    — “Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Designed and operated large-scale cloud infrastructure
  • Led incident response efforts
  • Improved service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience
Typical background
Experience in cloud infrastructureStrong software engineering skills

Skills & requirements

Required

AWSGCPKubernetesTerraformGoPythonCI/CDGitopsObservabilityService Level Indicators (slis)Service Level Objectives (slos)Error BudgetsPost-incident ReviewsAutomationPlatform Engineering

Preferred

Ai-assisted Engines

Stack & domain

GoPythonTerraformKubernetesAWSGCPPostgreSQLRedisOpensearchMySQLCassandraDNSLoad BalancingTLSService NetworkingTraffic ManagementObservability PlatformsMonitoring StrategiesProduction TelemetryLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationCloud ServicesProduction SystemsAutomationPlatform EngineeringObservabilityOperational Excellence

About the role

Original posting from Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.

The Engineering Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely.

This role is ideal for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a key contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.

What You'll Be Doing

Reliability & Operations

Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.

Participate in an on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.

Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.

Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.

Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.

Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.

Engineering & Automation

Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.

Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering.

Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.

Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities.

Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security.

What We Are Looking For

Technical Excellence

Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.

Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.

Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.

Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.

Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.

Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.

Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.

Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management.

Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.

Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.

Operational Excellence

Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems.

Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.

Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.

Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.

Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.

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The Okta Experience

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Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

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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Source: Okta careers

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