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 a globally distributed team of security: engineers (Senior through Staff), building a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and pragmatic security
Define and execute a multi-quarter roadmap for the team, aligned with: Customer Identity business goals and Okta's company-wide security strategy, balancing gateway engineering with security review demand
Lead the design and delivery of an internal AI gateway that secures internal: AI traffic — including agent, MCP, and LLM access — with authentication and authorization, policy enforcement, guardrails, auditing, and observability
Be hands-on in the team's technical work: contribute to architecture, prototypes, and code, and set the engineering bar for the team
Run an AI security review practice, similar to product security, that: assesses AI-enabled features, services, models, and agent/MCP integrations through intake, threat modeling, design review, and actionable remediation guidance
Review and build security controls for AI systems, addressing risks such as: prompt injection, insecure tool and agent permissions, data leakage, excessive agency, model and supply-chain risk, and abuse of agentic protocols (MCP, A2A)
What they're looking for
- Turn recurring review findings into reusable, secure-by-default controls,: libraries, and patterns that engineering teams can adopt without a security engineer in the loop
- Manage the intake and prioritization of AI security review requests, and: decide what the team takes on, defers, or declines in line with capacity
- Partner across Product, Engineering, and Identity Security leadership to: embed AI security into the development lifecycle
- Own and influence high-impact AI security architecture decisions across Auth0: and Okta Customer Identity infrastructure
