5 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Research and lead AI-assisted defenses for customer tenant hardening, detection, triage, and incident response.
- Research and build protections against adversarial ML, prompt injection, agentic protocol abuse, and model or data poisoning.
- Research the emerging AI threat landscape and translate findings into a 12–24 month protection strategy.
- Architect, build, deploy, and maintain scalable security solutions and automation.
- Review and harden Auth0’s AI security offering and recommend mitigations.
- Partner with identity security, product-aligned security engineering, and broader Okta Security teams.
- Support security operations, investigations, root cause analysis, and mitigation guidance where relevant.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure and/or product security.
- Hands-on AI/ML security experience, including attacking, defending, adversarial ML, LLM or prompt-injection attacks, agentic-system abuse, or model abuse.
- Hands-on development experience sufficient to prototype tooling, build AI-powered defenses, and operationalize research; Go is preferred.
- Working knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure security and Kubernetes.
- Strong knowledge of OWASP, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and secure coding practices.
- Strong foundation in secure software development lifecycle practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience working with globally distributed and remote teams.
- Preferred experience includes published threat research, CVEs, conference talks, production AI/ML security tooling, AI safety research, MCP security, identity and access management, full-stack engineering, site reliability engineering, vulnerability and threat management, or governance, risk and compliance.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
- Globally distributed work environment with teams across more than 20 offices.
- Immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
- Well-being support, social impact programs, talent development, and community connection opportunities.
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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.