Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Toronto, Ontario, Canada On-site Full-time USD 200,000 – 275,000 / year

Okta is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary technical advisor for customers on AI agent security, participating in daily standups, design sessions, and incident response activities to establish credibility and influence.
  • Collaborate with customer engineering teams to implement a comprehensive identity and authorization framework, including cross-application access, fine-grained permissions, secure gateway services, and agent registration.
  • Lead architectural integration efforts, taking full ownership of identity delegation, audit logging, emergency shutdown mechanisms, and system visibility while mentoring customer developers.
  • Engage executive stakeholders such as CISOs, CIOs, and chief AI officers to translate technical identity flows into strategic risk management and governance decisions.
  • Ensure successful, high-assurance deployment of agent systems with complete identity coverage, passed security reviews, and adherence to governance standards.
  • Maintain defensible system designs by aligning with recognized security frameworks including OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, MITRE ATLAS, and applicable regulations like HIPAA, FedRAMP, or SOC 2.
  • Integrate the platform deeply into existing customer infrastructure, connecting identity providers, identity governance tools, security posture platforms, SIEMs, EDR solutions, and runtime policy engines.
  • Develop evaluation tools and monitoring capabilities to track authorization latency, scope proliferation, suspicious delegation paths, audit completeness, kill-switch functionality, and unauthorized agent activity.
  • Identify common challenges across deployments and convert field insights into scalable product improvements and reusable components for broader customer impact.

Work Arrangement

On-site

Other

Ability to travel, 35% (on occasion internationally)

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Department Okta for AI Agents
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Posted a month ago