Staff Database Reliability Engineer (MySQL/PostgreSQL)

At Okta, we’re always pushing the bounds of the entire identity landscape. Data is a critical component of our product and our mission as a data store team is to provide a highly available, reliable, secure and performant transactional persistent data layer which we do by leveraging our vast experience and through the skillful use of automation. We are looking for a Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to join our team and bring further expertise working in large-scale environments with zero downtime to further help us on our mission. 

We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about solving problems at scale with automation, testing, and tuning. The ideal candidate exemplifies the ethics of, “If you have to do something more than once, automate it” and who can rapidly self-educate on new concepts and tooling. 

What you will be working on: 
As a Database Reliability Engineer, you will have ownership of all technical aspects of our data services tier from ground up. As a team we are also particularly committed to two Okta Engineering mantras "Always On" and "No Mysteries". Reporting to the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering, you will partner with our core product engineers, performance engineers, site reliability engineers, and growing DBRE team, working on scaling, securing, and tuning our infrastructure be it self managed MySQL, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL or CloudSQL.

Additionally, you will play a key role as we evolve our architecture to meet the demands of Okta's enormous growth and the hundreds of millions of users who rely on us to provide uninterrupted access to business-critical enterprise and consumer applications. 

• Ensure effective performance and 24X7 availability of the production database tier
•  Design, automate and document operational processes, tasks, and configuration management.
• Coordinate efforts towards performance tuning, scaling and benchmarking the data services infrastructure.
• Contribute to automation amongst other things using ansible plays, configuration management using chef and infrastructure as code using terraform. 

What do you bring to Okta: 

• First and foremost a positive team playing attitude - we are a team and we support each other so we can provide the best service for our customers.
• Extensive experience managing MySQL 5.7/8, PostgreSQL 11-15 at scale in a cloud environment as well as RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL and or CloudSQL
• Proficient in a Linux environment, including Linux internals and tuning
• Proficiency with terraform, chef, ansible
• Proficient writing Go/Python/Ruby/Shell
• Experience working with AWS (EC2 / EBS / S3 / RDS) or equivalent

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.