Okta
About this role
Okta is the identity company, and Auth0 is its developer facing platform handling more than 100 million logins a day. This SRE seat owns production reliability for it, working alongside product, quality, platform and architecture teams. Two things make it worth flagging. First, the experience bar is genuinely low for the title: 3 or more years in cloud operations or DevOps, with 2 in Go, shell and Terraform. Second, Okta's own board metadata lists minimum and maximum experience as zero, which is a placeholder, so the real figure has to be read out of the posting body. The job includes a 24 by 7 on call rotation, stated plainly, which you handle independently. Apply if you live by SLIs, SLOs and error budgets and want scale that most companies cannot offer.
Who this is for
Requirements as published:
- 3+ years in a Cloud Operations or DevOps role.
- 2+ years using Go, shell scripting and Terraform.
- 2+ years as a software developer in a SaaS environment.
- Understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), databases (SQL, NoSQL, key/value), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), web technologies (websockets, HTTP) and networking (SSL, routing, VPN).
- Exceptional communication, including technical writing in English.
- Knowledge of Datadog or another observability platform is desired rather than required.
The actual day to day:
- Owning and improving incident response processes with other teams.
- Participating in a 24 by 7 on call rotation, which the posting says you handle independently.
- Using existing monitoring to find problems and either resolve them or escalate to service teams.
- Setting and hitting long term performance, reliability and scalability goals on a platform with an aggressive growth plan.
- Automating to reduce toil for yourself and your teammates.
Location and office reality:
- Bengaluru. Office days are not stated. The posting does say the team works effectively in a remote environment where tasks may be self driven, but the role is listed at the Bengaluru site, so do not read that as a remote job.
Honest fit guidance:
- The on call rotation is 24 by 7 and it is in the requirements, not the small print. Decide about that before you apply.
- At 3 years this is one of the lowest bars on any Senior titled role in this edition, which makes it worth a look even if the word Senior would normally put you off.
- Ignore the board metadata showing zero years. It is a placeholder and the real requirement is in the body.
- 3+ years in a Cloud Operations or DevOps role.
- 2+ years using Go, shell scripting and Terraform.
- 2+ years as a software developer in a SaaS environment.
- Understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), databases (SQL, NoSQL, key/value), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), web technologies (websockets, HTTP) and networking (SSL, routing, VPN).
- Exceptional communication, including technical writing in English.
- Knowledge of Datadog or another observability platform is desired rather than required.
The actual day to day:
- Owning and improving incident response processes with other teams.
- Participating in a 24 by 7 on call rotation, which the posting says you handle independently.
- Using existing monitoring to find problems and either resolve them or escalate to service teams.
- Setting and hitting long term performance, reliability and scalability goals on a platform with an aggressive growth plan.
- Automating to reduce toil for yourself and your teammates.
Location and office reality:
- Bengaluru. Office days are not stated. The posting does say the team works effectively in a remote environment where tasks may be self driven, but the role is listed at the Bengaluru site, so do not read that as a remote job.
Honest fit guidance:
- The on call rotation is 24 by 7 and it is in the requirements, not the small print. Decide about that before you apply.
- At 3 years this is one of the lowest bars on any Senior titled role in this edition, which makes it worth a look even if the word Senior would normally put you off.
- Ignore the board metadata showing zero years. It is a placeholder and the real requirement is in the body.
Apply on company site
Opens www.okta.com, the employer's own application page. Applying is always free.