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About the Role

Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure to enable organizations to safely embrace the AI era by securing AI agents. This role is for a senior technical field authority who will own the patterns for agent identity, set the reference architecture, and influence product direction.

Responsibilities

• Own the reference architecture, defining canonical agent identity, delegation, audit, and kill-switch patterns.
• Lead the most strategic, regulated, or technically novel deployments.
• Review other FDEs’ architectures and coach senior customer engineers and team members.
• Synthesize patterns across accounts to shape the product roadmap and prioritize features.
• Represent Okta as a technical authority to CISO, CIO, and Chief AI Officer audiences.
• Resolve complex technical and political situations across accounts.
• Define standards for evaluating authorization latency, scope sprawl, audit completeness, and kill-switch verification.
• Build team leverage through reusable modules, internal tooling, and enablement.

Requirements

• 10+ years shipping production software with deep distributed systems and identity experience.
• Hands-on experience with identity protocols including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RFC 8693 token exchange, act claims, CIMD and DCR, DPoP.
• Fluency in agent security concepts such as OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, MCP, A2A, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act.
• Expertise in fine-grained authorization using ReBAC and ABAC with policy engines (OPA, Cedar, OpenFGA, or equivalent).
• Proven hands-on AI experience with production integrations across major agent platforms and MCP, and daily AI-native development.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction across multiple teams or accounts and mentor senior engineers.
• Credibility with CISO and principal engineer audiences, with ability to navigate sharp political situations.
• High agency and a founder's mindset applied to building a function.
• Ability to travel up to 35%.

Skills

• Distributed systems
• Identity protocols
• Agent security
• Fine-grained authorization
• ReBAC
• ABAC
• Policy engines
• AI integration
• AI-native development

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 10+ years

Salary/Compensations

• £114,000—£172,000 GBP OTE

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Financial benefits
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

About the Company

• Okta secures access for 20,000 organizations and billions of users.
• Okta for AI Agents extends that work to the agentic shift.
• We hire builders who see the cracks in enterprise agent identity that everyone else has learned to live with.
• We 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.

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.
• If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
• Notice 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. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.