Staff AI Security Engineer
Agent
Agentic Ai
Ai Security
Application Security
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Platforms
Data Security
Enterprise Risk
Generative AI
Information Security
Information Technology (IT)
InfoSec
Security
Security Automation
Security Compliance
Security Operations
Security Standards
Security Testing
Software Security
Solution Architecture
Job Description
Join Okta’s Security team to shape the technical vision for protecting AI models, agentic workflows, and autonomous systems. This Staff individual contributor role focuses on building scalable AI security infrastructure, deploying practical guardrails, and partnering across product, security, and infrastructure to keep enterprise AI deployments resilient as new threats emerge.
What you’ll do
- Design and deploy enterprise AI guardrails, gateways, and controls to safeguard agentic workflows from emerging threats
- Create security architectures for local and hosted agents to mitigate risks including tool-calling abuse, prompt injection, goal misalignment, and data exfiltration
- Develop secure design patterns and developer tools so engineering teams can build and deploy AI features safely and efficiently
- Lead threat modeling and security reviews for agentic AI systems, enterprise deployments, and AI ecosystems
- Build systems to discover, inventory, and assess AI usage and data flows across the enterprise
- Design and operate internal AI security platforms and implement integrated AI capabilities that automate complex security operations
- Drive technical alignment across product, security, and infrastructure teams; mentor engineers and security practitioners across domains
What you bring
- Deep knowledge of the AI threat landscape, including OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF, with practical experience in prompt injection, excessive agency, and other AI-related threats
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering or backend software development, with strong coding proficiency in Python or Go and hands-on cloud experience
- Experience securing or auditing agentic frameworks such as LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, or custom tool-calling agents, especially within sandboxed environments
- Proven ability to design scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP, including API gateways, proxy architectures, and access controls
- Track record building developer-first security tools and platform controls that help maintain engineering velocity
- Strong communication skills, including driving technical strategy, influencing engineering leaders, and mentoring engineers
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience
Tech you’ll work with
Python, Go, OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, AWS, GCP
Okta experience
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid)
Compensation: USD 180,000 - 247,500 per yearly
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