Senior Software Engineer - SRE

Overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer joining Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG) to build and operate highly reliable, scalable and secure cloud services, working closely with software engineers, architects and product teams.

What you'll do

• 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.
• 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 you'll need

• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

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

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid.