- Company: Okta
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join its Bengaluru team. In this position, you will serve as the senior-most technical voice on the ground. Your primary goal is to evolve Site Reliability Engineering from a traditional operations model into a Platform as a Service (PaaS) organization. You will set the architectural direction for the Kubernetes platform and partner with Staff and Principal engineers in the US and India to ensure a coherent global platform strategy.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and evolution of the Kubernetes platform, including cluster strategy, multi-tenancy, networking, and security.
- Lead the design and rollout of self-service platform capabilities, golden paths, and self-healing patterns.
- Drive platform readiness to host AI-driven internal workflows, including model serving and GPU scheduling.
- Take ownership of complex production incidents, capacity challenges, and cross-system failure modes.
- Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation shared with SRE peers in the US and India.
- Set technical standards for SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and on-call practices.
- Improve SDLC processes for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and change management.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews and architecture discussions.
- Represent the Bengaluru team in global platform architecture discussions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering with staff-level technical leadership.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in production-scale Kubernetes, including architecture, multi-tenancy, and day-2 operations.
- Experience running large-scale internal infrastructure platforms in a public cloud, preferably AWS.
- Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
- Strong proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages.
- Experience building or operating infrastructure for AI/ML or agentic workflows.
- Deep experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, or APM tools.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams and geographies.
- Computer Science degree or related field, or equivalent experience.
Pay and benefits
Okta offers a flexible hybrid work model. Specific in-office expectations will be discussed during the hiring process. The company supports employee well-being, social impact initiatives, and talent development. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Okta considers all qualified applicants 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.
How to apply
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