Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Networking w/ active TS/SCI

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Federal SRE team for the 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 engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a technical leader 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 Do

• Work with various teams to design and implement scalable, and reliable network solutions
• Maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure edge for the Okta identity platform
• Collect and analyze data to identify root causes for network-specific events
• Automate AWS infrastructure with Terraform
• Evolve the system by introducing changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and velocity

Qualifications

Core Requirements

• Clearance & Citizenship: Active TS/SCI clearance with a full scope poly
• Federal Compliance: Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6), with familiarity in SC2S/C2S
• 8+ years experience in a Cloud Network Engineer role or related
• In-depth understanding of TCP/IP networking stack (layer 2 through 7), ability to implement highly available VPC networks (including inter-vpc connectivity), stateless/stateful firewalls, DNS, WAFs, and cloud load balancing methods
• Deep knowledge of AWS network concepts such as Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN, and Direct Connect
• In-depth understanding of Load Balancing, DNS, and other networking protocols
• Solid understanding and experience with Apache httpd, Nginx, Apache Tomcat, or similar
• Ability to troubleshoot network issues using AWS VPC flow logs, CloudWatch metrics, and packet captures
• Experience working with Terraform
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, Golang, or similar is a bonus
• Experienced with Git
• Able to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Palo Alto next-gen virtual firewalls, security policy configuration, routing, and GlobalProtect
• Experience debugging software using gdb, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, Wireshark, etc.
• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes