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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.\nThis is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.\nSecurity Engineer, Customer Identity, Advanced Threat Protection\nGet to know Okta\nOkta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology-anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. \nAt Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. \nJoin our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.\nThe Role \nWe seek a knowledgeable and research-focused Security Engineer to join a new Advanced Threat Protection team within Auth0 Customer Identity. This role does two things at once: it researches how attackers will use AI against identity systems, and it researches and builds how we use AI to defend our products, our infrastructure, and - most importantly - our customers' tenants.\nThis role is a key member of the Security team embedded within the Customer Identity product unit and works across multiple functions to get ahead of emerging AI threats, supporting the growth of our global Customer Identity business.\nWe are an engineering-focused team that seeks to stay on the cutting edge of security technology and the threat landscape. In this role you won't just assess our current AI security offering - you'll research what we should be protecting customers from one to two years ahead, turn that research into concrete protections, and help put AI-assisted defenses into the hands of the teams and customers who protect their tenants.\nIn this role you will work as part of a globally distributed team of talented engineers who share a passion for security and enjoy solving complex problems at scale. This role works closely with and alongside the members of the broader Okta Security team in support of Okta's company-wide security strategy and Okta’s Secure Identity Commitment.\nThis is a level-agnostic description; scope, autonomy, and leadership expectations scale with level (Senior through Staff).\nResponsibilities:\nResearch and lead how we can use AI to protect customer tenants - both proactively (hardening posture before an attack) and during active incidents (accelerating detection, triage, and response) \nResearch and build protections against novel AI attacks that Auth0 and Auth0's customers can be subjected to - adversarial ML, prompt injection, abuse of agentic protocols (MCP, A2A, UCP, and emerging equivalents), model and data poisoning - as they apply to identity systems and customer tenants\nPartner with the identity security teams to help customers strengthen their own tenant security posture through AI-assisted defenses \nResearch the emerging AI threat landscape and translate it into a forward-looking (12-24 month) view of what we need to protect ourselves and our customers from - then architect, recommend, and build the tooling to get there \nReview and harden Auth0's AI security offering, identifying gaps and recommending mitigations before they're exploited \nPartner across a globally distributed product-aligned team of security engineers to turn research into shipped protections for customer tenants \nEstablish and execute a long-term engineering and threat research roadmap for Advanced Threat Protection aligned with company-wide business and security goals.\nOwn high-impact security architecture designs and decisions across Auth0 and Okta Customer Identity infrastructure to support long-term threat resilience.\nDrive cross-functional security strategies and partner across engineering, product, and enterprise security leadership across Okta to influence platform-wide standards and policies.\nActively coach, mentor, and level up Senior (P3) engineers and team members, fostering technical excellence, research discipline, and leadership growth.\nWhat this position is not: \nDedicated application security, code review, or compliance-focused work \nReactive patch and vulnerability management as a primary function - this role is about getting ahead of threats, not chasing them\nRequirements:\nYou have hands-on experience with AI/ML security - attacking, defending, or both (e.g., adversarial ML, LLM/prompt-injection attacks, agentic-system or model abuse), and an interest in using AI to build defenses, not just to study attacks \n 8+ years of experience in security engineering, with a proven track record of setting technical vision, driving cross-organizational initiatives, and leading architectural choices in cloud/product security.\nDemonstrated experience mentoring senior-level engineers, defining multi-quarter technical strategy, driving architectural consensus, and influencing cross-organizational security initiatives. \nYou have hands-on development experience - Go preferred - sufficient to prototype tooling, build AI-powered defenses, and operationalize your research \nYou have working knowledge and hands-on experience with one or more of the following: \nAWS and/or Azure security \nKubernetes \nYou have strong knowledge of OWASP (including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications) and secure coding best practices \nYou have a strong foundation in secure software development lifecycle best practices \nYou have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn research into clear guidance for engineering and product teams \nYou have experience working with a globally distributed and remote team\nBonus points if:\nYou have published threat research, CVEs, or conference talks in AI/ML security or identity security \nYou have built AI/ML-powered security tooling or defensive automation in a production environment \nYou have working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following: \nAdversarial ML, model red-teaming, or AI safety research \nThe AI agent / MCP ecosystem and its security implications \nIdentity and access management \nFull-stack engineering \nSite reliability engineering \nVulnerability and threat management \nGovernance, risk and compliance\n#PID: P25952\nThe Okta Experience\nSupporting Your Well-Being \nDriving Social Impact \nDeveloping Talent and Fostering Connection + Community\nWe are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.\nOkta 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.\nIf reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.\nNotice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. 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