- Company: Okta
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
Okta is looking for a research-focused Security Engineer to join the new Advanced Threat Protection team within Auth0 Customer Identity. This position involves investigating how attackers might use AI against identity systems and developing AI-powered defenses to protect Okta’s products, infrastructure, and customer tenants. You will work as part of a globally distributed team, collaborating with the broader Okta Security team to support the company’s security strategy.
Responsibilities
- Research and lead the use of AI to proactively harden customer tenants and accelerate incident response.
- Develop protections against novel AI attacks, including adversarial ML, prompt injection, and model poisoning, specifically for identity systems.
- Partner with identity security teams to help customers strengthen their security posture using AI-assisted defenses.
- Translate the emerging AI threat landscape into a forward-looking 12–24 month protection strategy and build the necessary tooling.
- Review and harden Auth0’s AI security offering to identify gaps and recommend mitigations.
- Establish and execute a long-term engineering and threat research roadmap aligned with company goals.
- Coach and mentor Senior engineers to foster technical excellence and leadership growth.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML security, including attacking or defending against adversarial ML, LLM/prompt-injection attacks, and agentic-system abuse.
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering with a proven track record of setting technical vision and leading architectural choices in cloud/product security.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring senior-level engineers and defining multi-quarter technical strategy.
- 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 (including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications) and secure coding best practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to turn 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 focused on supporting well-being, driving social impact, and developing talent. The company emphasizes connection and community, with an immersive in-person onboarding experience designed to help new hires accelerate their impact and connect to the mission from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
How to apply
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