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Secure Identity Engineer

at Okta

As AI transforms the way the world operates, securing it becomes one of the defining challenges of our time. This role focuses on delivering a trusted identity layer for modern technologies, ensuring security fuels innovation. You will contribute to the Secure Identity Commitment, a pledge to lead with transparency, invest in resilient infrastructure, and champion identity-first security to protect customers and their users.

Team Focus

  • Security: Protect people, products, and customers by staying always on and always secure. This team anticipates threats and fortifies systems to make trust a daily reality.
  • Engineering: Build secure, reliable systems that earn trust at scale. From infrastructure to user experience, the team turns complex challenges into performant and resilient code.
  • AI Identity: Pioneer the identity framework for AI agents, ensuring clear scope, audit trails, and secure control to make complex enterprise AI safely production-ready.

Responsibilities

  • Protect people, products, and customers by maintaining an always-on and always-secure environment.
  • Anticipate security threats and proactively fortify systems.
  • Build and maintain secure, reliable systems that scale effectively.
  • Develop performant and resilient code across the identity lifecycle, including governance, access, and privileged controls.
  • Authenticate, authorize, and secure access for applications, devices, and users across both workforce and customer identity platforms.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn customer needs into secure, scalable identity solutions.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in building or securing complex, large-scale systems.
  • Strong understanding of the identity lifecycle, including authentication and authorization protocols.
  • Ability to write performant, resilient code for infrastructure or user-facing applications.
  • Commitment to transparency and identity-first security principles.
  • A builder mindset with the ability to own projects from conception to production.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and employee stock purchasing plan.
  • Flexible PTO and professional development resources.
  • Support for work-life balance and sustainable growth.
  • Social impact opportunities through the 1% Pledge, committing time, product, and equity to global communities.

Core Values

  • Love our customers: Do what it takes to earn customer trust and loyalty.
  • Always secure, Always on: Advocate for a safer world with pride and commitment to mission-critical roles.
  • Build and own it: Take deep ownership of the work and care about the people you work with.
  • Drive what’s next: Deliver the future of identity.

For more information on the recruitment process, please refer to the Interview Guidelines.

Required Skills:
SAMLOAuth 2.0Lifecycle ManagementPythonJavaGo
Certifications:
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Benefits:
Flexible PTO
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  • Location


    San Francisco, US
  • Salary


    $90K to $120K per year
  • Job Type


    Full Time
  • Work Mode


    Onsite
  • Experience


    Mid Level
  • Posted


    Jun 15, 2026
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