Okta
Director, Site Reliability Engineering
$246K–$378K
Bellevue, Washington +2 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, Washington
San Francisco, California
United States - Experience
- 15+ years in site reliability, infrastructure, or production engineering; 8+ years in technical leadership and people management, including managing managers; 4+ years running an SRE organization supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud.
- Education
- Computer Science Degree or related degree or equivalent experience
- Visa sponsorship
- There is no citizenship requirement. The Okta employee must be on US Soil: the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or outlying areas of the United States as defined in FAR 2.101.
About the job
Leads Okta’s Site Reliability Engineering organization to scale and operate reliable, secure, and cost-effective services for emerging products.
What you'll do
- Lead the SRE organization and set reliability strategy in partnership with engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders.
- Drive incident management, root-cause analysis, automation, observability, and long-term corrective actions.
- Build and develop SRE teams, platforms, tooling, and self-service capabilities; improve cloud infrastructure and delivery processes.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure, or production engineering roles.
- 8+ years of technical leadership and people management, including managing managers.
- 4+ years running an SRE organization supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud.
- Expertise in automation, observability, performance optimization, incident response, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting a multi-Cloud environment.
Pay
$275,000 — $378,400 USD annual base salary (San Francisco Bay Area); $246,000 — $337,700 USD annual base salary (California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington)
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD
AI focus
Drive adoption of AI within the SRE organization.
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