- Company: Okta
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
Okta is hiring a Security Engineer to join a new Advanced Threat Protection team within the Auth0 Customer Identity unit. This position focuses on researching how attackers might use AI against identity systems and building AI-powered defenses to protect customers. You will work as part of a globally distributed team, collaborating with the broader Okta Security team to support the company’s security strategy. This is a level-agnostic description, with scope and autonomy scaling from Senior to Staff level.
Responsibilities
- Research and lead the development of AI tools to proactively harden customer tenants and accelerate incident response.
- Build protections against novel AI attacks, including adversarial ML, prompt injection, and abuse of agentic protocols like MCP and A2A.
- Partner with identity security teams to help customers strengthen their security posture using AI-assisted defenses.
- Translate the emerging AI threat landscape into a 12–24 month forward-looking view and architect the necessary tooling.
- Review and harden Auth0’s AI security offering to identify gaps and recommend mitigations.
- Build, deploy, and maintain scalable security solutions and automation for AI threat defenses.
- Collaborate with the Okta Security team on security operations and root cause analysis.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML security, including attacking and defending against adversarial ML, LLM attacks, and model abuse.
- 4+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure or product security.
- Hands-on development experience, preferably in Go, to prototype tooling and build AI-powered defenses.
- Working knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure security, and Kubernetes.
- Strong knowledge of OWASP standards, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and secure coding best practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to translate research into clear guidance for engineering and product teams.
- Experience working with globally distributed and remote teams.
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 to help new hires connect with the team and mission.
How to apply
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