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About the Role

Okta is building the future of secure, enterprise-grade AI Agents. This role defines the technical vision, architecture, and security controls for AI models, agentic workflows, and autonomous systems. It's a senior individual contributor role focused on designing scalable AI security infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and partnering with cross-functional teams to build secure "paved roads" for AI innovation.

Responsibilities

Design and deploy enterprise AI guardrails, gateways, and other controls to protect agentic workflows from emerging threats.
Establish security architectures for local and hosted agents to mitigate tool-calling, prompt injection, goal misalignment, and data exfiltration risks.
Develop secure design patterns and developer tools for safe and rapid AI feature deployment.
Lead threat modeling and security reviews for agentic AI systems, enterprise deployments, and agent ecosystems.
Build systems to discover, inventory, and assess AI usage and data flows across the enterprise.
Design and operate internal AI security platforms and develop integrated AI capabilities to automate security operations.
Drive technical alignment across product, security, and infrastructure teams.
Mentor engineers and security practitioners across domains.

Requirements

Deep knowledge of the AI threat landscape, including OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF with practical experience in prompt injection, excessive agency, and other AI-related threats.
8+ years of experience in security engineering or backend software development.
Strong coding proficiency in Python or Go.
Hands-on cloud experience (AWS/GCP).
Experience securing or auditing agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, or custom tool-calling agents) operating within sandboxed environments.
Proven ability to design scalable cloud infrastructure, API gateways, proxy architectures, and access controls for enterprise systems.
Track record of building developer-first security tools and platform controls that maintain engineering velocity.
Strong communication skills with a history of driving technical strategy, influencing engineering leaders, and mentoring engineers.

Skills

Python
Go
AWS
GCP
API Gateways
Proxy Architectures
Access Controls
LangChain
Strands
Claude Agent SDK
Tool-calling agents

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff
Senior

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience

Salary/Compensations

$180,000—$247,500 USD (San Francisco Bay Area)
$161,000—$221,000 USD (California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Washington)

Benefits

Equity (where applicable)
Bonus
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
Flexible spending account
Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

About the Company

Okta is building the future of secure, enterprise-grade AI Agents.
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.
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