Site Reliability Engineer, Security

The Security Engineering Team

Our Infrastructure Security team has a niche skill-set that balances Security domain expertise with the ability to design, implement, rollout infrastructure across multiple cloud environments without adding friction to product functionality or performance. We are responsible for the ever-growing need to improve our customer safety and privacy by providing security services that are coupled with the core Okta product.

We embrace innovation and pave the way to transform bright ideas into excellent security solutions that help run large-scale, critical infrastructure. We encourage you to prescribe defense-in-depth measures, industry security standards and enforce the principle of least privilege to help take our Security posture to the next level. 

The SRE Opportunity

Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced and passionate Site Reliability Engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing Security solutions to harden our cloud infrastructure.  

This is a high-impact role in a security-centric, fast-paced organization that is poised for massive growth and success. You will act as a liaison between the Security org and the Engineering org to build technical leverage and influence the security roadmap. You will focus on engineering security aspects of the systems used across our services. Join us and be part of a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

Bring all the passion and dedication along, and there’s no telling what you can accomplish!

What you’ll be doing 

• Building, running, and monitoring Okta's production infrastructure
• Be an evangelist for security best practices and also lead initiatives/projects to strengthen our security posture for critical infrastructure
• Responding to production incidents and determining how we can prevent them in the future
• Triaging and troubleshooting complex production issues to ensure reliability and performance
• Identifying and automating manual processes
• Continuously evolving our monitoring tools and platform
• Promoting and applying best practices for building scalable and reliable services across engineering
• Developing and maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and procedures
• Supporting a 24x7 online environment as part of an on-call rotation

What we are looking for

• Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem.
• 2+ years experience automating, securing, and running large-scale production IAM and containerized services in AWS (EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, RDS), GCP (GKE, GCE) or other cloud providers.
• 2+ years of experience with configuration management tools like Chef and Terraform.
• Have experience in operational tooling languages such as Ruby, Python, Go and shell, and use of source control.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols.
• Experience with industry-standard security tools like Nessus, Qualys, OSQuery, Splunk, etc.
• Experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and secrets management
• Unflappable troubleshooting skills
• Security background and knowledge.
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).

Bonus Experience 

• Experience conducting threat assessments, and assessing vulnerabilities in a high-availability setting.
• Understand MySQL, including replication and clustering strategies, and are familiar with data stores such as DynamoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.

Additional requirements:

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.  As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.