Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Splunk

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Position Overview

We are seeking a highly technical Staff Observability Site Reliability Engineer with a specialty in Splunk to own and evolve our Splunk ecosystem. In this role, you will move beyond simple monitoring to delivering a world‑class, comprehensive, scalable observability platform that enables our SRE teams and business partners. You will treat infrastructure as code—utilizing Terraform and strong coding proficiency in Go, Python, or Ruby—to automate the deployment of agents and collectors across complex distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using Terraform.
• Optimize the collection, processing, and storage of log data to ensure high reliability and low latency of our Splunk services.
• 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".

Required Skills & Experience (The Essentials)

• Minimum 5+ years of experience scaling and managing Splunk Cloud at scale (1000+ SVCs), including Workload Management (WLM) and HEC optimization.
• Expertise in creating intuitive, actionable Splunk dashboards that correlate data across multiple sources.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role with a focus on high‑availability systems.
• Strong coding skills in SPL and Go for building internal tools and automating workflows.
• Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
• A data‑driven approach to debugging complex, cross‑service performance bottlenecks.

Bonus Skills (The "Nice‑to‑Haves")

• Hands‑on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.
• Experience implementing Splunk charge‑back app for usage reporting.
• Experience managing observability native tools within AWS or GCP.

Additional Requirements

• Must be able to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. Candidates must submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status upon hire.
• Required in‑person onboarding in our San Francisco office during the first week of employment.

Compensation & Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between $194,000 and $267,000 USD.

For candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington, the range is between $174,000 and $239,000 USD.

Okta offers 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). To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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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