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
Proactively shape the technical strategy of the Identity Security Fabric,: partnering with leadership to prioritize open standards like IPSIE.
Govern and monitor agentic behavior by implementing the four-pillar maturity: model across our fullstack ecosystems.
Architect for the agentic era, ensuring systems can discover and secure all: agents, including "Shadow AI" assets.
Enforce secure access and least privilege for agents through capabilities: like Agent Gateways and short-lived credentials.
Drive continual evolution in the adoption of AI-native development practices,: helping the team rethink how we design, review, and ship software with AI as a core part of the workflow.
Proactively identify and prioritize tech debt; drive improvements in areas: beyond feature work - CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes.
What they're looking for
- Partner with Product and Design to understand and own the desired customer: outcome, not just the technical deliverable.
- Actively invest in the growth of peer engineers, taking responsibility for: raising the technical bar of the team as a whole.
- Operates well beyond basic AI tool usage: understands how to apply AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle, can evaluate and adopt new AI tooling with good judgment, and is able to establish practices and bring a team along.
- Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating: complex APIs with modern web technologies - including the ability to make and defend architectural decisions with lasting org-wide impact.