Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Auth0)

About the role

The SRE Leadership Team at Okta is seeking a Manager, Site Reliability Engineer to lead the team's technical direction, drive complex initiatives, and champion reliability best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SRE team's technical direction, translating organizational vision into actionable roadmaps while driving complex, cross-functional initiatives across product and platform teams
• Operate at scale through hands-on participation in 24/7 on-call rotations (follow-the-sun weekdays, shared weekends), directly troubleshooting and remediating incidents on critical systems
• Build infrastructure resilience, designing and implementing monitoring, alerting, and automation improvements that reduce toil and elevate operational efficiency
• Champion reliability best practices, establishing policies and cultural standards that embed observability, resilience, and software engineering rigor into all engineering efforts
• Mentor and develop SRE talent, elevating team capabilities through pair programming, design discussions, and code reviews while fostering a culture of continuous learning
• Represent reliability as a senior technical leader in architectural reviews and strategic planning, ensuring reliability is a core consideration in major engineering decisions

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on team leadership in SRE or software engineering roles within cloud-native environments, combined with 8+ years of total industry experience
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and infrastructure as code (Terraform), with proven experience managing cloud-native architectures including containers, Kubernetes, microservices, and databases
• Strong programming skills in Go or Python, with a track record of building and maintaining production-grade tools, automation, and infrastructure solutions
• Data-driven mindset grounded in SRE principles: blameless culture, systematic problem-solving, and the ability to apply software engineering approaches to operational challenges
• Exceptional communication skills—both verbal and written—enabling you to drive clarity during high-pressure incidents and articulate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders
• Promised ability to build and lead high-performing teams in globally distributed, remote-first environments with strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Strategic vision and technical depth, combining leadership acumen with hands-on technical excellence and a passion for mentoring senior engineers and shaping team direction

Qualifications

• Experience leading reliability initiatives that directly improved system uptime and reduced incident response times at scale
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or observability tooling
• Experience designing and implementing comprehensive incident response programs and runbook automation

Skills

• Experience working in federal environments
• U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee)

Benefits

Okta offers competitive compensation, including an annual base salary range between $182,000 USD - $250,800 USD for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington. Additional benefits include:

• Equity (where applicable)
• Bonus
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.