Director, Site Reliability Engineering

United StatesFull-time$246k–$378k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10

Hybrid

Core

Lead the SRE organization to scale Okta's production fleet (authenticating millions of users daily) on AWS with 99.999% availability.

Role type

Director, Site Reliability Engineering (Technical Leader)

Builds

Resilient, scalable, and secure SaaS/Cloud services for identity management

Domain

Identity Security / Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

Required skills

SRE strategy, incident management, automation, observability, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, people management, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

Multi-cloud experience, building offshore SRE teams, AI integration in SRE org

Technologies

AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

Define and execute SRE strategy, lead post-incident reviews and root-cause analysis, implement automation and observability, hire and mentor SRE talent, foster global collaboration, improve SDLC and release management processes

Seniority

Director, managing managers

About Okta

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