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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 flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core 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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As a SRE Engineer, you will champion all things pertaining to reliability at Okta on our Auth0 product. Working closely with the product engineers, quality engineers, platform engineers and architecture teams, your primary focus will be on ensuring production systems remain operational at all times, while continually setting and achieving long-term performance, reliability and scalability goals in a platform with an exponential growth plan for the coming years.
With Auth0’s increased dedication to ensuring customer availability expectations are exceeded in every way, you will play a key role as we evolve our system architecture to meet the demands of enormous growth and support the hundreds of millions of users who rely on us to provide uninterrupted access to business-critical enterprise and consumer applications.
You will:
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve availability, reliability, and observability of their services.
- Participate in regular on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 coverage of all critical systems
- Use existing monitoring tools to identify problems and resolve and/or escalate to service teams
- Implement changes to enable or improve infrastructure resilience, monitoring, and alerting
- Develop and do continuous refinement of SRE tools and processes to improve software delivery, observability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Daily coding, scripting, and development – Go, Terraform, Helm, etc
- Optimize existing systems and eliminate toil through simplification and automation.
- Define, document, and advocate reliability best practices and policies
You might be a good fit if you:
- Have 3+ years industry experience as a Site Reliability Engineer
- Have experience in Golang
- Have experience in managing infrastructure with Terraform at scale
- Are comfortable working with a fully distributed team
- Have experience as software developer in a SaaS environment
- Have experience in a production environment supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications
- Have demonstrable expertise working with Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services.
- Production on-call experience in a 24/7 cloud based environment
- Have a good understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), databases (SQL, No-SQL, Key/Value), containers (docker, kubernetes), web technologies (web sockets, http) and networking (SSL, routing, VPN)
- Exceptional communication skills, including technical writing in the English language
- Have a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
- Comfortable with the Agile software development methodology
- Loves to work as a team, but is able to work effectively in a remote environment where tasks may be self-driven
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:$102,000—$154,000 CAD
What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
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