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OktaOktaBellevue, WA

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

Staff SRE focused on building and scaling a comprehensive observability platform on GCP using Terraform, Splunk, and Grafana. Requires 5+ years GCP observability experience and strong coding skills in Python or Go.

194k – 267k
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform
  • Optimize the collection, processing, and storage of Observability data to ensure high reliability and low latency of Splunk and Grafana services on GCP
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews to drive systemic improvements and "observability-driven development"
  • Automate the deployment and scaling of observability agents and collectors to eliminate toil

Requirements

  • Minimum 5+ years scaling and managing observability in Google Cloud Platform (GKE)
  • Expertise in creating intuitive, actionable Splunk or Grafana dashboards that correlate data across multiple sources
  • Minimum 3+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role with a focus on high-availability systems
  • Strong coding skills in Python or Go for building internal tools and automating workflows
  • Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE)
  • Data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks

Nice-to-Haves

  • Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks
  • Experience migrating Splunk to Grafana Loki
  • Experience managing observability native tools within AWS

This position requires U.S. Person status.

Skills

TerraformGKESplunkGrafanaPythonGoKubernetesLinuxTCP/IPDNSLoad BalancingOpenTelemetry

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