Senior Level Reliability Engineer Jobs
Senior level reliability engineer jobs place engineers in charge of system resilience strategy, site reliability standards, and the cross-functional teams that implement them. Roles are concentrated across Technology & Software, Electronics & Hardware, and Manufacturing, with a mix of on-site, remote, and hybrid positions, and employers like MongoDB, NVIDIA, and Applied Materials hiring at this level now.
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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. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box, we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Engineering Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely.
This role is ideal for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a key contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.
The ideal candidate exemplifies the philosophy of "if you have to do it more than once, automate it" and possesses a strong passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and software engineering.
What You'll Be DoingReliability & Operations
- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
- Participate in an on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.
- Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
- Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
- Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
Engineering & Automation
- Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
- Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering.
- Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
- Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities.
- Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security.
Technical Leadership
- Contribute to and drive reliability initiatives within the product group.
- Guide engineers in adopting operational best practices and reliability engineering principles.
- Mentor engineers through technical collaboration, design reviews, incident analysis, and knowledge sharing.
- Support architecture and operational decisions through data-driven recommendations and engineering expertise.
- Execute projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership.
Innovation
- Explore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency, incident response, troubleshooting, and automation.
- Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies to reduce toil and improve engineering productivity.
Our Tech Stack
- Infrastructure/Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Terraform, Helm, Git, ArgoCD, GitOps
- Programming: Golang, Python
- Observability: Datadog, Splunk
- Data Stores: PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch
What We Are Looking For
Technical Excellence
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
- Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
- Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management.
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.
- Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.
Operational Excellence
- Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems.
- Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.
- Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.
- Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.
Security & Compliance
- Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.
- Experience implementing operational controls and best practices in regulated or security-sensitive environments is a plus.
Leadership
- Demonstrated experience contributing to complex engineering initiatives.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple timezones and cultures.
- Experience mentoring engineers and elevating technical capabilities within an organization.
- Ability to collaborate on technical direction through expertise, partnership, and execution.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience operating SaaS platforms serving large-scale customer workloads.
- Experience working within Kubernetes-based microservices environments.
- Experience supporting globally distributed production environments.
- Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD.
- Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling or automation workflows.
#LI-Hybrid
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The Okta Experience
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
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.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box, we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Engineering Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely.
This role is ideal for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a key contributor within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services.
The ideal candidate exemplifies the philosophy of "if you have to do it more than once, automate it" and possesses a strong passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and software engineering.
What You'll Be DoingReliability & Operations
- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services.
- Participate in an on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems.
- Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements.
- Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
- Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
Engineering & Automation
- Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies.
- Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering.
- Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices.
- Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities.
- Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security.
Technical Leadership
- Contribute to and drive reliability initiatives within the product group.
- Guide engineers in adopting operational best practices and reliability engineering principles.
- Mentor engineers through technical collaboration, design reviews, incident analysis, and knowledge sharing.
- Support architecture and operational decisions through data-driven recommendations and engineering expertise.
- Execute projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership.
Innovation
- Explore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency, incident response, troubleshooting, and automation.
- Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies to reduce toil and improve engineering productivity.
Our Tech Stack
- Infrastructure/Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Terraform, Helm, Git, ArgoCD, GitOps
- Programming: Golang, Python
- Observability: Datadog, Splunk
- Data Stores: PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch
What We Are Looking For
Technical Excellence
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
- Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
- Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management.
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.
- Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.
Operational Excellence
- Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems.
- Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.
- Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.
- Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.
Security & Compliance
- Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.
- Experience implementing operational controls and best practices in regulated or security-sensitive environments is a plus.
Leadership
- Demonstrated experience contributing to complex engineering initiatives.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple timezones and cultures.
- Experience mentoring engineers and elevating technical capabilities within an organization.
- Ability to collaborate on technical direction through expertise, partnership, and execution.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience operating SaaS platforms serving large-scale customer workloads.
- Experience working within Kubernetes-based microservices environments.
- Experience supporting globally distributed production environments.
- Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD.
- Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling or automation workflows.
#LI-Hybrid
#P22403
The Okta Experience
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
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.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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- Applied Materials6
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Senior Level Reliability Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level reliability engineer job?
Employers at this level look for engineers who have owned reliability outcomes end-to-end, not just contributed to them. Strong candidates demonstrate a history of designing SLOs and error budgets, leading incident response at scale, and mentoring junior engineers. Hands-on experience with distributed systems, infrastructure automation, and observability tooling gives you a clear edge over candidates with narrower scope.
Which companies hire senior level reliability engineers?
Companies hiring senior level reliability engineers right now include MongoDB, NVIDIA, and Applied Materials, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Hiring at this level tends to come from large technology firms, cloud-native companies, and regulated industries like financial services and energy that depend on high-availability infrastructure.
Are there remote senior level reliability engineer jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by employer and team structure. About 33% of senior level reliability engineer openings are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, reflecting strong demand for experienced engineers who can lead reliability work without requiring daily on-site presence. On-site roles remain common in sectors with strict compliance or data-center-heavy operations.
What makes a reliability engineer role senior level?
Senior reliability engineer roles are defined by ownership and scope, not just technical skill. At this stage, you are expected to set reliability standards across services or platforms, drive architectural decisions that affect system availability, and mentor engineers earlier in their careers. You lead post-incident reviews, influence engineering culture, and are accountable for measurable reliability outcomes rather than executing tasks assigned by others.
Which industries hire the most senior level reliability engineers?
Senior Level reliability engineer roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Electronics & Hardware, and Manufacturing, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. These sectors drive the highest demand because they operate at a scale and criticality where system downtime carries serious financial or safety consequences, making experienced reliability leadership a core business priority.