The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Hire, lead, coach, and develop globally distributed teams of security: engineers (Senior through Staff), building a culture of research discipline, technical excellence, and ownership
Define and execute a multi-quarter roadmap for your teams, aligned with: Customer Identity business goals and Okta's company-wide security strategy, and balance investment and prioritization across them
Lead the delivery of scalable, reliable micro-services and automation that: secure Customer Identity products and infrastructure, including secrets storage, rotation, access control, auditing, and workload identity
Drive adoption of secure-by-default secrets handling across Auth0 engineering: teams, and reduce the risk from hard-coded, long-lived, or over-privileged credentials
Research 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 prioritize investments in detection, tooling, and protections to get there
Direct research and protections against emerging general and AI-driven: security threats targeting Auth0 and Auth0's customers — including traditional identity attacks as well as adversarial ML, prompt injection, abuse of agentic protocols (MCP, A2A, UCP), and data poisoning — as they apply to identity systems and customer tenants
What they're looking for
- Guide the review and hardening of Auth0's AI security offering, using: analysis of past incidents to drive improvements such as new detection signals, heuristic updates, and data labeling enhancements, while identifying gaps and recommending mitigations before they're exploited
- Partner with the identity security teams to help customers strengthen their: own tenant security posture through comprehensive defenses and security countermeasures
- Partner across Product, Engineering, and Identity Security leadership to turn: research into shipped protections for customer tenants, both proactively (hardening posture before an attack) and during active incidents (accelerating detection, triage, and response)
- Drive adoption of scalable security solutions and automation that: operationalize threat defenses and secrets protections at scale
