About the company
Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. The Okta Secures AI Team is building the future of digital identity management, focusing on enablement while staying secure.
Responsibilities
- Proactively shape the technical strategy of the Identity Security Fabric, partnering with leadership to prioritize open standards like IPSIE.
- Govern and monitor agentic behavior by implementing the four-pillar maturity model across our fullstack ecosystems.
- Architect for the agentic era, ensuring systems can discover and secure all agents, including "Shadow AI" assets.
- Enforce secure access and least privilege for agents through capabilities like Agent Gateways and short-lived credentials.
- Drive continual evolution in the adoption of AI-native development practices, helping the team rethink how we design, review, and ship software with AI as a core part of the workflow.
- Proactively identify and prioritize tech debt; drive improvements in areas beyond feature work - CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, and support processes.
- Partner with Product and Design to understand and own the desired customer outcome, not just the technical deliverable.
- Actively invest in the growth of peer engineers, taking responsibility for raising the technical bar of the team as a whole.
Requirements
- Operates well beyond basic AI tool usage - understands how to apply AI meaningfully across the full software development lifecycle, can evaluate and adopt new AI tooling with good judgment, and is able to establish practices and bring a team along.
- Proven experience defining scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies - including the ability to make and defend architectural decisions with lasting org-wide impact.
- Solid understanding of web authentication and authorization fundamentals - how auth flows work, and best practices for securing sensitive user data.
- Deep expertise in building highly reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software using Java or another type safe programming language.
- Proficiency in JavaScript.