Staff AI Security Engineer

Join Okta, a leading identity and access management company, as a Staff AI Security Engineer. In this role, you will define the technical vision and architecture for AI security, design and deploy enterprise AI guardrails, and lead threat modeling for AI workflows. You will also build systems to discover and assess AI usage across the enterprise and mentor engineers and security practitioners. This is a senior individual contributor role for a hands-on engineer with a deep knowledge of the AI threat landscape and experience in securing agentic frameworks.

• Define the technical vision, architecture, and hands-on security controls for AI models, agentic workflows, and autonomous systems across Okta.
• Design and deploy enterprise AI guardrails, gateways, and other controls to protect agentic workflows from emerging threats.
• Lead threat modeling and security reviews for agentic AI systems, enterprise deployments, and agent ecosystems.
• Technical Leadership: Strong communication skills with a history of driving technical strategy, influencing engineering leaders, and mentoring engineers
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience
• Software Engineering: 8+ years of experience in security engineering or backend software development, with strong coding proficiency in Python or Go and hands-on cloud experience
• AI Security Expertise: Deep knowledge of the AI threat landscape, including OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF with practical experience prompt injection, excessive agency, and other AI-related threats
• Agentic Framework Knowledge: Experience securing or auditing agentic frameworks (such as LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, or custom tool-calling agents) operating within sandboxed environments
• Architectural Expertise: Proven ability to design scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), API gateways, proxy architectures, and access controls for enterprise systems
• Paved Road Construction: Track record of building developer-first security tools and platform controls that maintain engineering velocity