Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly technical Staff Observability Site Reliability Engineer with a specialty in Splunk to own and evolve our Splunk ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Automated Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
• Splunk Engineering: Optimize the collection, processing, and storage of log data to ensure high reliability and low latency of our Splunk services
• Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews to drive systemic improvements and "observability-driven development."
• Automation: Eliminate "toil" by automating the deployment and scaling of observability agents and collectors.

Required Skills & Experience (The Essentials)

• Log Management: Minimum 5+ Experience scaling and managing Splunk Cloud at scale (1000+ SVCs), including Workload Management (WLM) and HEC optimization.
• Visualization: Expertise in creating intuitive, actionable Splunk dashboards that correlate data across multiple sources.
• SRE Mindset: Minimum 5+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role with a focus on high-availability systems.
• Programming Proficiency: Strong coding skills in SPL, Go for building internal tools and automating workflows.
• Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
• Problem Solving: A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks.

Bonus Skills (The "Nice-to-Haves")

• Telemetry Standards: Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.
• Charge-back app: Experience in implementing Splunk charge-back app for usage reporting
• Cloud Platforms: Experience managing observability native tools within AWS or GCP.

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.
• This person must attend in person onboarding in our San Francisco office the first week of employment.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $194,000—$267,000 USD

Benefits

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: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

The Okta Experience

• Supporting Your Well-Being
• Driving Social Impact
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

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