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About the Role

Okta's Auth0 Platform Observability team is seeking an Observability Engineer to ensure Product and Platform Engineers can monitor and observe the Auth0 Platform. This role involves maintaining and automating observability tooling, including metrics, logs, and traces, for the entire platform. The ideal candidate is passionate about monitoring, observing, measuring uptime and availability, and ensuring platform stability, with experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Development Operations (DevOps). As a Senior Engineer, you will be a core technical leader, working cross-functionally to integrate services, support product teams, and investigate incidents to identify observability gaps.

Responsibilities

Champion observability best practices and educate engineering teams on building robust, standardized instrumentation.
Act as an expert in running services in production environments.
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 and operational issues.
Automate operational tasks and improve scripts.
Assist with and provide feedback for performance testing and automation.
Participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify telemetry gaps.
Act as a technical leader driving cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards.

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.

Skills

Observability
Metrics
Logs
Traces
Error Tracking
Terraform
Node.js
Golang
Docker
Kubernetes
Microservice Architecture
OpenTelemetry
Vector

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$147,000—$202,000 USD

Benefits

Equity (where applicable)
Bonus
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
Flexible spending account
Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

About the Company

Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace the new era of AI.
Okta's global community spans over 20 offices worldwide, united by a drive to innovate.
The journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate impact and connect to the mission and team from day one.

Equal Opportunity

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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