Principal Site Reliability Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE We're seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to drive technical leadership and reliability engineering within Okta's Emerging Products Group (EPG). This role extends beyond operating production systems, requiring a deep understanding of technical strategy, platform architecture, and reliability standards. As a technical leader, you will establish reliability strategy, influence platform architecture, and lead transformational initiatives that improve scalability, resilience, security, and operational excellence for one of Okta's fastest-growing product areas. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will: - Define and drive the reliability strategy for critical product and platform services - Establish standards for availability, resilience, observability, incident management, and operational readiness - Lead architecture reviews for critical services and platform initiatives - Partner with engineering leaders to ensure reliability objectives align with business priorities and customer expectations - Create frameworks, standards, and operational guardrails that enable engineering teams to operate safely at scale - Guide service architecture toward simplicity, scalability, resilience, and operational excellence - Drive major initiatives that improve platform maturity and long-term sustainability - Own reliability architecture and operational excellence for the Spera / ISPM product area - Collaborate closely with engineering leadership to establish reliability objectives and technical roadmaps - Lead large-scale scalability, resiliency, and performance initiatives - Partner with platform and product engineering teams to build self-service operational capabilities that improve developer productivity while strengthening reliability and security - Influence technical direction through data-driven recommendations, engineering expertise, and collaborative leadership - Support highly available, large-scale cloud environments as part of an on-call rotation - Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services - Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies - Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering - Improve deployment safety, operational workflows, and platform consistency through GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices - Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities - Lead complex engineering initiatives from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership - Mentor Staff and Senior engineers across multiple teams and organizations - Lead technical reviews, design reviews, and operational readiness assessments - Build engineering consensus across teams with differing priorities and objectives - Help develop the next generation of technical leaders within Okta - Drive adoption of reliability engineering best practices across EPG - Share patterns, tooling, and operational practices across Workflows, Inbox, PAM, and ISPM teams - Influence technical direction through expertise, collaboration, and execution rather than organizational authority WHAT YOU'LL NEED - A deep understanding of technical strategy, platform architecture, and reliability standards - Experience leading large-scale engineering initiatives that drive measurable business outcomes - Strong organizational influence and ability to build engineering consensus across teams with differing priorities and objectives - Excellent technical leadership and communication skills - Ability to drive technical direction through data-driven recommendations, engineering expertise, and collaborative leadership - Experience with Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies - Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and production services - Ability to eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and