About this role
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
The Security Team
Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transform how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every box—we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can improve us with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The Staff Product Security Engineer Opportunity
The Security team's mission is to strengthen Okta's position as the leading Identity-as-a-service solutions provider by identifying and resolving risks to employees, products, and, most importantly, our customers.
The Staff AI Product Security Engineer joins a team with a clear mission: to shape the future of application security by researching and building systems that prove how AI can fundamentally augment, automate, and scale defense. This is a hybrid research, offensive and software engineering role centered on leveraging AI to uncover vulnerabilities, automate root cause analysis, automate exploitation, and generate secure code patches at cloud scale.
This role is built for engineers who want to push the limits of what AI can do for security, from benchmarking SOTA frontier models and fine-tuning open-weight models to building production-grade security tooling across Product Security. While a main focus will be on creating intelligent, automated security capabilities that keep Okta continuously ahead of emerging threats, performing full security reviews of Okta's products, as well as agentic architectures and internal AI pipelines, to uncover, exploit and fix vulnerabilities is also part of the work.
The ideal candidate thinks creatively but also like an attacker, builds like an engineer, and publishes their findings. We actively support external research disclosure through white papers, blog posts, and conference presentations.
What You Will Do
• Lead technical capability research evaluating frontier LLMs and customized open-weight models for advanced code analysis, autonomous attack and logical security reasoning.
• Engineer production-grade, AI-assisted security tools that automate vulnerability discovery, triaging,