Senior Software Engineer, Observability

About the Position

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.

The Auth0 Platform Observability team owns the observability tooling that monitors the Auth0 Platform, and we are looking for an Observability Engineer to help ensure that our Product and Platform Engineers can monitor and observe our platform while continuing to rapidly ship software that our customers love. Our engineers maintain and automate observability tooling for our entire platform, including metrics, logs, and traces.

We are looking for engineers passionate about monitoring, observing, measuring uptime and availability, and ensuring platform stability. If you have experience within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) field or working as a Development Operations (DevOps) engineer, and you have a passion for Observability tooling, this position will allow you to further your learning and development in these areas.

As a Senior Engineer on this team, you will act as a core technical leader. You will work cross-functionally to help integrate services with our instrumentation libraries, support product teams, and actively investigate incidents to identify our observability gaps.

Responsibilities

• Proven ability to champion observability best practices, acting as an educator who can effectively correct anti-patterns and teach other engineering teams how to build robust, standardized instrumentation.
• Be an expert in running services in production environments.
• Contribute to the process of designing services for high growth and high availability.
• Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and operational issues.
• Automating operational tasks and improving scripts.
• Assisting with and providing feedback for performance testing and automation.
• Actively participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify critical gaps in our current telemetry tooling.
• Act as a technical leader, driving cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards across the broader engineering organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem (Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking), including establishing alerting standards, implementing tagging taxonomies, and managing Datadog configurations via Terraform.
• Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks.
• Deep understanding of microservice architecture and best practices.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring more junior engineers.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and collaborate seamlessly with multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.

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.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $147,000-$202,000 USD.
• 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.
• Hybrid work options.

About the Company

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.

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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