# Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes at Okta

- Company: Okta
- What the company does: The Okta and Auth0 Platforms enable secure access, authentication, and automation — putting identity at the heart of business security and growth. Backed by Greylock, Khosla and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.okta.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://www.okta.com/company/careers/opportunity/8160050?gh_jid=8160050
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/okta-staff-site-reliability-engineer-kubernetes/

## About the role

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a key role in building and managing Kubernetes platforms that support cloud-native applications and services. This position focuses on architecting and managing reliable, scalable, and secure Kubernetes-based platforms on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance while optimizing costs and automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes platform creation, Helm charts, Karpenter scaling, and Istio service mesh.

## What they're looking for

- 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes/Helm,
- 4+ years of Experience with Terraform
- 5+ years of Experience with AWS
- Experience with multi-region cloud environments
- Proven experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, IAM, etc.) and solid understanding of cloud-native architectures
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes platform creation, management, and optimisation (e.g., setting up highly available clusters, networking, and storage)

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