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Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI)
Okta INC · 🇺🇸 Washington, DC
Sponsorship verdict
Posting rules out sponsorship
The posting rules out sponsorship or requires citizenship/clearance.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 93 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 52 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Okta INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles20 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $167k–$214k, median $180k. Most were filed at wage level IV (75%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Security clearance mentionedFrom the posting’s own wording.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 93 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 52 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Federal SRE Team We are looking for an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join Okta's Federal SRE team for the Emerging Products Group (EPG). Our mission is to build highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that our customers can trust. We embrace an automation-first mindset and continuously invest in platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence to enable our engineering teams to move quickly and safely. The Staff SRE, Classified Opportunity This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, building automation, and improving the reliability of production systems. You will serve as a technical leader within the EPG SRE organization, partnering closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate world-class cloud services. The ideal candidate exemplifies the philosophy of "if you have to do it more than once, automate it" and possesses a strong passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and software engineering. Security Clearance: Active U.S. TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Poly Compliance Expertise: Proven experience navigating Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6) What you’ll be doing: Reliability & Operations • Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services. • Participate in an on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems. • Lead incident response efforts and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements. • Define, measure, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets. • Partner with engineering teams to improve service availability, scalability, performance, and resilience. • Continuously improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting. Engineering & Automation • Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies. • Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering. • Improve deployment safety and operational workflows through CI/CD and GitOps practices. • Collaborate on modernizing existing workloads and aligning them with evolving platform capabilities. • Build self-service platforms, operational guardrails, and automation that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security. Technical Leadership • Lead complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams. • Guide engineers in adopting operational best practices and reliability engineering principles. • Mentor engineers through technical collaboration, design reviews, incident analysis, and knowledge sharing. • Influence architecture and operational decisions through data-driven recommendations and engineering expertise. • Drive projects from conception through production rollout and long-term operational ownership. Innovation • Explore and apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve operational efficiency, incident response, troubleshooting, and automation. • Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies to reduce toil and improve engineering produc