Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Federal)

TL;DR

Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Federal): Designing and delivering secure, air-gapped infrastructure solutions for federal partners with an accent on AWS, Kubernetes, and compliance frameworks like FedRAMP and IL6. Focus on incident management, driving operational rigor, and mentoring technical teams to ensure the reliability of mission-critical identity services.

Location: Must be based in the Washington, D.C. area with on-site customer travel required.

Salary: $188,000 – $258,500 USD

Company

Okta is a leading independent identity partner providing secure enterprise management and identity-as-a-service solutions for over 20,000 customers.

What you will do

• Design and deliver AWS-based projects using Terraform, Helm, and Go for secure federal air-gapped environments.
• Respond to and remediate production incidents, performing deep-dive troubleshooting and implementing preventive solutions.
• Drive high-quality code and operational rigor through design and code reviews.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.
• Adapt existing platform deployments to meet strict federal security and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• Active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance is mandatory.
• 6+ years of professional experience running production cloud workloads at scale.
• 4+ years of experience developing and troubleshooting web services on Kubernetes.
• Proven experience with FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6) compliance frameworks.
• Deep expertise in architecting and deploying software within federal air-gapped environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a technical field.
• Experience with data warehouse products such as Snowflake, Redshift, or Databricks.
• Prior experience supporting mission-critical Enterprise SaaS platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA).
• Paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
• Equity and bonus programs.