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Okta

Staff AI Security Engineer

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about 4 hours ago
Chicago, IL, USA +4 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$180k - $248k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy enterprise AI guardrails and controls to protect agentic workflows.
  • Establish security architectures for local and hosted agents to mitigate various risks.
  • Develop secure design patterns and developer tools for safe AI feature deployment.
  • Lead threat modeling and security reviews for AI systems and enterprise deployments.
  • Build systems to discover and assess AI usage and data flows across the enterprise.
  • Design and operate internal AI security platforms to automate security operations.
  • Drive technical alignment and mentor engineers across product, security, and infrastructure teams.

Requirements

  • Deep knowledge of the AI threat landscape, including OWASP and MITRE ATLAS.
  • 8+ years of experience in security engineering or backend software development.
  • Strong coding proficiency in Python or Go with hands-on cloud experience.
  • Experience securing or auditing agentic frameworks in sandboxed environments.
  • Proven ability to design scalable cloud infrastructure and access controls.
  • Track record of building developer-first security tools and platform controls.
  • Strong communication skills and experience in driving technical strategy.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) and flexible spending account.
  • Paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
  • Equity and bonus opportunities.