Okta

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents

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10 days ago
Toronto, Canada +3 moreSenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$200k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the trusted technical advisor on agent security for customer engineering, architecture, security, and executive stakeholders.
  • Architect and deploy Cross-App Access, Fine-Grained Authorization, MCP Gateway, agent client registration, and related identity and delegation capabilities in customer environments.
  • Own end-to-end production outcomes, including identity coverage, security reviews, governance compliance, posture visibility, auditability, and kill-switch functionality.
  • Integrate Okta for AI Agents with customer identity providers, IGA, ISPM, SIEM, EDR, and policy engines.
  • Build evaluations and observability for authorization latency, scope sprawl, delegation anomalies, audit completeness, kill-switch verification, and rogue-agent detection.
  • Translate recurring customer deployment patterns into reusable modules and product roadmap improvements.
  • Maintain regular on-site customer presence and travel approximately 35%, including occasional international travel.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of experience shipping production software, with continued hands-on coding, on-call experience, and operational maturity in high-throughput authentication and authorization systems.
  • Ability to work with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RFC 8693 token exchange, act claims, CIMD, DCR, and DPoP.
  • Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS, plus familiarity with MCP, A2A, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act.
  • Experience mapping deployments to HIPAA, FedRAMP, or SOC 2 requirements.
  • Experience with ReBAC, ABAC, and policy engines such as OPA, Cedar, and OpenFGA or equivalent.
  • Hands-on production integrations with Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Agentforce, Bedrock, LangChain, CrewAI, the OpenAI Agents SDK, or MCP servers.
  • Daily use of AI-native development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
  • Ability to operate effectively in customer standups and executive briefings, build trust with senior engineering leaders, and own outcomes end to end.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $200,000-$275,000 USD for specified locations, with equity where applicable, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
  • Remote role with regular presence at customer locations and approximately 35% travel, occasionally international.
  • Immersive in-person onboarding experience and access to Okta’s global community, talent development, connection, and social-impact programs.

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