Senior Software Engineer, Observability

ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to join the Auth0 Platform Observability team at Okta. As a core technical leader, you will be responsible for championing observability best practices, integrating services with instrumentation libraries, and actively investigating incidents to identify observability gaps. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Senior Engineer on this team, you will: - Champion observability best practices and educate other engineering teams on building robust, standardized instrumentation - Run services in production environments and contribute to 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 - Automate operational tasks and improve scripts - Participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify critical gaps in our current telemetry tooling - Drive cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards across the broader engineering organization WHAT YOU'LL NEED - 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience - Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure - Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem, 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 WHY REMOTE Okta is a global company with a presence in over 20 offices worldwide. As a remote employee, you will be part of a global community united by a drive to innovate. You will have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented individuals and contribute to a mission-driven organization. BENEFITS Okta offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: - Annual base salary range: $147,000 - $202,000 USD - Equity (where applicable) - Bonus - Health, dental, and vision insurance - 401(k) - Flexible spending account - Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) - Total Rewards program: https://rewards.okta.com/us