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 the work streams for securing AI Agents.
Build the Runtime Policy Decision Point (PDP). Implement the request-time: authorization engine at the Agent Gateway and at the agent to resource connection level to intercept and evaluate every agent request against per-agent, per-tool, and per-resource rules.
Design and support authoring from a policy engine like Cedar, schema: validation, and evaluation—connecting the admin console's no-code UI builder output with direct API-published policies.
Develop the logic to validate which users a delegated agent is permitted to: represent and securely forward the acting user's identity to downstream resources.
Track and shape MCP, OAuth token exchange, and agent identity specifications.: Feed lessons learned from production back into the specs and their reference implementations.
Develop Comprehensive Audit Logging. Build secure logging mechanisms to: record the outcome of every request (allow or deny) along with the specific rule or reason behind the decision.
What they're looking for
- 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.
- 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.
