- Company: Okta
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
Okta is looking for a technical Security Engineering Manager to lead teams within the Auth0 Customer Identity unit. This role combines leadership with deep technical involvement in AI security and infrastructure protection. You will guide engineers in building proactive defenses and secure software for a global identity platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop globally distributed teams of security engineers, focusing on hiring, coaching, and retention.
- Define and execute multi-quarter roadmaps aligned with business goals and company-wide security strategy.
- Oversee the development of micro-services and automation for secrets storage, rotation, and workload identity.
- Research emerging AI threats, including adversarial ML and prompt injection, to build forward-looking defenses.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to harden AI security offerings and respond to incidents.
- Communicate risk and technical trade-offs clearly to senior leadership and engineering teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure or product security.
- 3+ years of experience managing security or software engineering teams.
- Hands-on development background, preferably in Go or Node, to guide micro-service design and review.
- Experience with AI/ML security, including attacking or defending against LLM and agentic system threats.
- Working knowledge of secrets management, cryptographic key handling, and secure coding practices.
- Experience with AWS/Azure security and/or Kubernetes.
- Strong communication skills and experience leading remote teams across time zones, including India.
Pay and benefits
Okta offers a comprehensive benefits package supporting well-being, social impact, and talent development. The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides an immersive in-person onboarding experience for new hires.
How to apply
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