10 hours ago
Base Salary
$174k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Act as a liaison among Engineering, Security, and Product to develop requirements for the security roadmap.
- Research, design, implement, and own security-oriented frameworks and features that protect Okta customers.
- Evangelize security best practices across the engineering organization.
- Participate in cross-vertical code reviews with an emphasis on security.
- Prototype rapidly, break down complex problems, and contribute iteratively to security initiatives using agile practices.
- Troubleshoot and fix production issues affecting reliability, security, and performance.
- Coach and mentor junior engineers.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, including cookbooks and design and architecture documents.
Requirements
- 8+ years of development experience designing and implementing software systems in Java.
- 4+ years of experience designing and implementing security solutions for applications and distributed systems.
- Experience with Application Security, Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization, Certificates, and Secrets Management.
- Experience using cloud service providers such as AWS and GCP.
- Experience with RDBMS such as MySQL, including replication and clustering, and familiarity with Redis and Elasticsearch.
- Understanding of post-quantum cryptography, quantum-resistant algorithms, cryptographic migration strategies, and secure enterprise integration.
- Understanding of designing, developing, and securing production-grade agentic AI systems, including autonomous and multi-agent architectures.
- Strong security and engineering leadership, software engineering knowledge, written and verbal communication, and strategic problem-solving skills.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field.
- Must be located on U.S. soil and qualify as a U.S. person; working on a U.S. visa does not qualify as U.S. person status.
Benefits
- Equity, where applicable, plus bonus and health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- Immersive in-person onboarding and connection with a global community spanning more than 20 offices.
- Well-being support, social-impact opportunities, talent development, and community-building programs.
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About Okta
Okta builds cloud-based identity and access management for enterprises and developers, including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management. It sells subscription SaaS as the Okta Workforce Identity and Customer Identity Clouds; the latter incorporates Auth0, acquired in 2021. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Okta is a public company traded on Nasdaq.