About the company
Okta secures AI by building trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. Okta's Workforce Identity Cloud Security Engineering group is looking for an experienced software security engineer to join a team focused on designing and developing security solutions to harden frameworks and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Act as a liaison between the engineering, security and product orgs to develop innovative requirements for the security roadmap
- Evangelize security best practices across the engineering org
- Research, design, implement and own security oriented frameworks and features with the common goal of protecting Okta's customers
- Routinely participate in cross-vertical code reviews with emphasis on Security
- Break down complex problems into sub-tasks while prototyping rapidly and iteratively contributing to security initiatives using agile practices
- Coach and mentor junior engineers in the team
Requirements
- 8+ years of development experience in designing and implementing software systems in Java, building highly reliable and mission-critical software
- 4+ years of work experience in designing and implementing security solutions for applications and distributed systems
- Excellent understanding in Application Security, Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization, Certificates and Secrets Management
- Experience using Cloud Service Providers such as AWS and GCP
- Experience using RDBMS like MySQL, concepts such as replication and clustering, familiarity with data stores such as Redis and Elasticsearch
- Developing and maintaining technical documentation such as cookbooks, design and architecture docs
- Good understanding in Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) solutions, including quantum-resistant algorithms, cryptographic migration strategies, and secure integration into enterprise systems
- Good understanding in designing, developing, and securing production-grade agentic AI systems, including autonomous and multi-agent architectures
- Troubleshooting and fixing production issues to ensure reliability, security and performance
- Strong leadership skills in security and engineering, excellent grasp of software engineering principles, strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strategic problem solving abilities to assist in planning, scoping and refining requirements of large and complex initiatives
- B.S or M.S in Computer Science or related fields
Conditions
- U.S. soil status required
- U.S. person status required (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or U.S. national; green card holders, refugees, and asylees). Working on a U.S. visa does NOT qualify
- Annual base salary range for San Francisco Bay area: $194,000 - $267,000 USD
- Equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave