AI Identity Security Engineering Lead

Okta Inc.; Dublin (CA); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Healthcare

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Okta Inc. is seeking a Security Engineering Manager for Customer Identity to lead a globally distributed team focused on AI security tooling and secure design reviews.

You will design an internal AI gateway, influence architecture, and partner across Product, Engineering, and Identity Security to embed security into the development lifecycle. The role combines hands-on security work with leadership, roadmap planning, and cross-functional collaboration to secure Okta’s AI-enabled identity

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security engineering with cloud infrastructure focus.
• 3+ years managing security or software engineering teams with hiring/retention
• Hands-on development in Golang and Node.js; able to design/build micro-services and security tooling.
• Hands-on AI/ML security experience (LLMs, prompt-injection, agentic systems)
• Experience performing product or application security reviews including threat modeling

Responsibilities

• Hire and grow a globally distributed security engineering team.
• Define a multi-quarter roadmap aligned with Customer Identity goals and security strategy.
• Lead design and delivery of an internal AI gateway securing AI traffic and access.
• Contribute to architecture, prototypes, and code; set engineering bar.
• Run an AI security review practice covering intake, threat modeling, design reviews.
• Review and build secure AI systems/tools addressing prompt injection and data leakage.
• Turn reviews into reusable, secure-by-default controls and patterns.
• Manage intake/prioritization of AI security review requests across time zones.
• Embed AI security into the development lifecycle with cross-team collaboration.
• Own and influence high-impact security architecture decisions for Auth0 and Okta Customer Identity infrastructure.
• Communicate risk and progress to senior leadership with actionable guidance.

Skills

Golang

Node.js

Security engineering

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Remote team leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

OWASP

Job description

Okta Inc. is seeking a Security Engineering Manager for Customer Identity to lead a globally distributed team focused on AI security tooling and secure design reviews.

You will design an internal AI gateway, influence architecture, and partner across Product, Engineering, and Identity Security to embed security into the development lifecycle. The role combines hands-on security work with leadership, roadmap planning, and cross-functional collaboration to secure Okta’s AI-enabled identity