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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart 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.
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THE ROLE:

Okta is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to take on a key role within Okta’s Cyber Defense Engineering team, reporting to the Director of Defensive Cyber Engineering. In this role you will focus on maintaining and improving the reliability, automation, and scalability of cyber defense systems supporting a variety of teams within Cyber Defense. You will have the opportunity to work closely with detection and response engineers, threat researchers, adversarial engineers and platform teams to ensure our security tools and infrastructure are robust, resilient, and high-performing.
This role is ideal for someone with experience in planning, building, shipping Python applications as well as familiarity working with common AWS services. Reliability Engineering is a key part of this role, as we monitor our own services.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with Cyber Defense Operations teams to build and maintain Cyber Defense Platform capabilities like log ingestion pipelines and detection platform.
• Implement, and optimize scalable and resilient infrastructure for cyber detection and response systems.
• Monitor and improve the availability, latency, and performance of security tools, ensuring high uptime and efficiency.
• Troubleshoot issues with tooling, ensuring rapid resolution of outages and performance degradations.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configurations, and CI/CD pipelines for cyber defense tooling.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and configuration of Okta’s detection pipelines, log management, threat intelligence, and other security systems.
• Implement self-healing mechanisms to reduce operational toil and manual troubleshooting.
• Implement monitoring and observability solutions to track the health and performance of security infrastructure.
• Develop dashboards and alerting systems to provide real-time insights into system reliability and security event processing.
• Support security incident response efforts by ensuring log availability, query efficiency, and forensic data integrity.
• Participate in post-incident reviews, identifying areas for improvement and implementing reliability enhancements.
• Stay up to date with best practices in SRE, DevOps, and cloud security to enhance operational effectiveness.