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About the Role

As a Principal Identity Engineer, you will be the cornerstone of our internal IAM team, driving the vision, strategy, and execution of our identity infrastructure. You will champion our "Customer Zero" philosophy, partnering directly with product engineering teams to deploy Okta’s newest features, products, and capabilities internally before they hit the market. This is a highly autonomous, high-impact role for a technical leader who acts with a fierce sense of ownership and urgency, simplifying complex problems and scaling solutions. You will mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and help determine what’s next for the platform, including AI-powered services and intelligent agents.

Responsibilities

Act as the primary bridge between internal stakeholders, IAM and Okta’s core Product teams, ensuring Okta is the first to deploy its own cutting-edge capabilities and providing rigorous feedback.
Serve as a foundational pillar and mentor for the IAM engineering team, fostering a culture of high performance, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
Embody the philosophy of "Move fast, simplify, and repeat," identifying systemic inefficiencies, automating legacy processes, and championing agile execution.
Take initiative to identify what is needed next and lead the organization toward it.
Partner daily with cross-functional stakeholders to push the boundaries of identity security, modern authentication, and governance.
Act as both the architect and the technical implementer for key strategic initiatives, implementing, guiding, and validating critical deployments.
Regularly deliver clear, data-driven leadership updates, translating complex technical milestones and risks into strategic insights for Okta’s executive team.
Establish, track, and report on key performance metrics and KPIs to prove the health, security, and maturity of our IAM ecosystem.
Facilitate design strategy and successful execution of playbook adoption, planning, and intake processes.
Drive the secure adoption of AI technologies by designing, deploying, and governing AI agents and AI-enabled services within the enterprise.

Requirements

10+ years experience implementing and/or supporting enterprise IAM solutions
Expertise with industry IAM concepts and best practices, particularly relating to SSO, MFA, IGA, and PAM
Deep expertise in modern authentication protocols (OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0) and advanced multi-factor authentication paradigms, including FIDO2/WebAuthn, passkeys, and phishing-resistant MFA.
Comprehensive understanding of secure session lifetimes, token binding, token revocation strategies, and continuous access evaluation to mitigate session hijacking risks.
Proven experience designing and securing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and cloud-native service-to-service authentication.
Deep knowledge of enterprise secrets management architectures (e.g. Okta Privileged Access) ensuring secure storage, dynamic rotation, and strict access controls.
Advanced proficiency using IaC tools, specifically Okta Workflows and Terraform, to manage identity configuration, access policies, and cloud infrastructure as code.
Strong background in integrating IAM configuration and testing into modern CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) to ensure safe, automated, and repeatable deployments.
Experience leading and developing other engineers
Leads by a automation first mindset
Occasional travel as required

Skills

Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
OIDC
OAuth 2.0
SAML 2.0
FIDO2/WebAuthn
Passkeys
Phishing-resistant MFA
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication
Cloud-native service-to-service authentication
Enterprise secrets management
Okta Privileged Access
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Okta Workflows
Terraform
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
AI technologies
AI agents
AI-enabled services

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal
10+ years experience

Benefits

Supporting Your Well-Being
Driving Social Impact
Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

About the Company

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.
The Identity team's mission is to secure the world's identity connections while building the foundational trust layer for the modern enterprise.
Okta is 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.
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