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Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Okta


Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 204000 - 306000
Posted: 29 September 2026 (3 days ago)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Secure Every Identity from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.

Manager Site Reliability Engineering

San Francisco California

Secure Every Identity from AI to Human

Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. Were all in on this mission. If you are too lets talk.

**This position requires 2 days a week in our San Francisco Office.

The IDaaS Site Reliability Engineering Group

Okta authenticates authorizes and provisions millions of users a day. The service is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple availability zones and geographically separated regions. The service is designed for high throughput and 99.999 availability. Were looking for a technical leader to help us continue to scale the service with great people and reliable cost-effective and efficient infrastructure processes and tooling.

As the Manager of Infrastructure Platform and Shared Services you will oversee multiple teams focused on Edge networking K8s platform CI/CD Observability automation platform & tooling.

What youll be doing

  • Managing a team of SREs supporting various workloads and teams that support our IDaaS platform.
  • Drive the microservice journey DevOps maturity and workload reliability in tandem with architects and teams across the organization.
  • Accelerate the velocity of SRE and product engineering by developing powerful tooling intuitive self-service capabilities and robust self-healing patterns.
  • Lead mentor and grow a high-performing team of engineers and managers across platform infrastructure and shared services domains.
  • Perform engineering design evaluations and ensure the completion of projects within resource budget and scheduling constraints.
  • Improve SDLC processes for Cloud infrastructure as a code including the maturity of CI/CD pipelines change and release management
  • Manage service and business expectations and prioritize resource allocation
  • Maintain a deep knowledge of industry best practices evolving trends and technologies

What youll bring to the role

  • 3 years of experience in technical leadership & people management
  • Extensive experience using Agile and DevOps methodologies to build product infrastructure and shared service at scale
  • Experience running large-scale infrastructure platforms supporting a SaaS/Cloud service in a public Cloud preferably AWS. Experience supporting a multi-Cloud environment will be a plus.
  • Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures containerization (Kubernetes) IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong background and hands-on experience in SW development PaaS and automation
  • Deep experience with building and operating observability platforms and monitoring tools (Grafana Splunk APM etc.) in a large scale environment.
  • Effective verbal written communication and interpersonal skills
  • Computer Science Degree or related degree or equivalent experience

Additional requirements:

  • This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen National Lawful Permanent Resident Refugee or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

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Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills qualifications experience and work addition Okta offers equity (where applicable) bonus and benefits including health dental and vision insurance 401(k) flexible spending account 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: The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$204000 - $306000 USD

The Okta Experience

We are intentional about connection. Our global community spanning over 20 offices worldwide is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin ancestry marital status age physical or mental disability or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records consistent with applicable laws.

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