Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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. ABOUT OKTA Okta is an enterprise grade identity management service, built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta you can manage access across any application, person, or device. Whether the people are employees, partners, or customers, or the applications are in the cloud, on premises, or on a mobile device, Okta helps you become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance. The Okta service provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems. ABOUT THE TEAM The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta that benefit our users. Today, the Data Platform team solves challenges and enables: * Streaming analytics  * Interactive end-user reporting  * Data and ML platform for Okta to scale * Telemetry of our products and data Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible. We encourage ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company. Okta is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.  ABOUT THE POSITION This is an opportunity for experienced Software Engineers to join our fast growing Data Platform organization that is passionate about scaling high volume, low-latency, distributed data-platform services & data products. In this role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come. As a member of the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the systems that power our data analytics and ML. Our analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake.  We are looking for experienced Software Engineers who can help design and own the building, deploying and optimizing the streaming infrastructure. This project has a directive from engineering leadership to make OKTA a leader in the use of data and machine learning to improve end-user security and to expand that core-competency across the rest of engineering. You will have a sizable impact on the direction, design & implementation of the solutions to these problems.   JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: * Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components * Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation * Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning * Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization * Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack    REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:  * 8+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java  * Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including * Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka  * Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam * Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop * Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos * Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems * Excellent grasp of software engineering principles * Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management * Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management NICE TO HAVE * Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure * Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services * Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems. * Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop * Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack #LI-Hybrid #P22344 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

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. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING * Design, build, and operate highly scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure powering our production systems across AWS and GCP. * Lead major reliability and modernization initiatives, including container platform migrations (e.g., ECS to EKS/GKE) and microservice enablement across multi-cloud environments. * Serve as a technical authority in Kubernetes (EKS and GKE), cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP), and modern CI/CD practices (GitOps, automation pipelines). * Partner with development teams to architect and enable microservice-based applications, ensuring production readiness, scalability, and observability. * Implement and manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) to automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration management across multiple cloud providers. * Drive improvements in observability, performance, and cost efficiency through robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems that span AWS and GCP. * Champion SRE best practices — defining SLOs/SLIs, conducting blameless postmortems, and continuously improving incident response. * Lead complex technical projects from conception to completion, managing timelines, and technical dependencies across teams. * Mentor engineers across teams, fostering a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous learning. * Collaborate with security and compliance partners to ensure infrastructure adheres to best practices and standards (e.g., IAM Federation, Workload Identity). * Participate in the on-call rotation, using incidents as learning opportunities to enhance systems and processes. WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE: * Strong hands-on experience architecting and operating cloud-native distributed systems (AWS and GCP). * Deep expertise with Kubernetes (EKS and GKE) — design, provisioning, scaling, and advanced troubleshooting in production. * Proven experience leading ECS to EKS/GKE migrations and driving microservice enablement initiatives at scale. * Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (multi-provider), Ansible, or CloudFormation. * Solid coding and scripting ability in Python, Go, or Shell, with a focus on automation, tooling, and operational excellence. * Advanced understanding of CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Spinnaker), Linux systems, and networking fundamentals (Direct Connect/Interconnect, DNS, routing, load balancing) and Redis (must have). * Experience managing databases and caching systems (e.g., RDS/Cloud SQL, Redis/Memorystore, PostgreSQL, MySQL) in cloud environments. * Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Operations) for performance and reliability insights. * Working knowledge of container security, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Secret Manager), and compliance in production environments. * Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated success leading cross-team projects and mentoring peers. Experience: * 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles. * 3–5 years of experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) and related ecosystem tools (Helm, Karpenter, etc.) in production. * 3–5 years of experience with AWS and GCP. * 3–5 years using Terraform to manage multi-cloud infrastructure. * 5+ years of coding experience in Python, Go, or similar languages. * Proven track record leading high-impact projects, specifically migration projects (ECS → EKS/GKE) and enabling microservice architectures. * Experience implementing SLOs/SLIs, performing root cause analyses, and improving operational resilience. * Prior work in SaaS or high-scale, cloud-native environments is a strong plus. * Strong Linux and security fundamentals. * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience.   #LI-Hybrid P17605_3418893 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.

Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. As Reddit continues to scale globally, reliability and performance are more critical than ever. The Site Experience SRE team sits at the intersection of infrastructure, product engineering, and user experience - ensuring that every interaction across web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, and real time systems is fast, reliable, and resilient. We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user facing systems at internet scale. In this role, you will partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across Reddit’s most business critical experiences. This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who thrives in large-scale distributed systems, enjoys solving complex reliability challenges, and can influence engineering culture across the organization. WHAT YOU’LL DO: * Lead Reliability Engineering for User Experience * Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for critical user facing systems and services. Improve performance and resiliency across APIs, content delivery, feed generation, search, messaging, and real-time experiences. * Architect for Scale * Partner with product and infrastructure engineering teams to design systems that remain highly available and performant under massive global load. Guide architectural decisions around failover, redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning. * Reduce Operational Risk * Identify systemic risks and reliability bottlenecks across services, dependencies, deployments, and infrastructure. Build proactive mitigation strategies and drive engineering improvements that reduce incidents and improve service health. * Drive Automation * Eliminate repetitive operational work through automation and tooling. Build systems that improve deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails * Incident Management * Lead complex incident response efforts across engineering teams. Drive blameless postmortems, identify root causes, and ensure sustainable long-term fixes are implemented. Influence Engineering Standards * Define and champion best practices around reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity across the company. Mentor and Multiply Impact * Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across SRE and software engineering teams. Help shape reliability culture and raise the operational excellence bar across the organization. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR * 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems. * Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams. * Strong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments. * Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, cloud native architectures. * Experience designing highly available systems with strong operational and reliability practices. * Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or similar. * Strong understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting. * Experience improving reliability through SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization. * Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services. Nice to Have * Experience operating systems at internet scale traffic volumes. * Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, and modern deployment platforms. * Familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis, or similar distributed infrastructure technologies. * Experience with CDN optimization, edge reliability, traffic engineering, or global infrastructure. * Contributions to open source software or participation in technical communities. * Experience leading large scale incident response and operational transformation initiatives. Why Join Reddit? You’ll help shape the reliability and performance of one of the internet’s largest platforms, influencing experiences used by millions of people every day. This is an opportunity to solve deeply complex engineering problems at massive scale while helping define the future of reliability engineering for a modern consumer platform. Benefits * Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support * Family Planning Support * Gender-Affirming Care * Mental Health & Coaching Benefits * Private Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits * Personal Retirement Savings Account with matching contribution * Cycle to Work and Tax Saver schemes * Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off * Generous Paid Parental Leave In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews. During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors. Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.