Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Okta for AI Agents

fde; Bellevue, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 269,000 - 369,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta in Bellevue, WA seeks a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for Okta for AI Agents to drive large-scale deployments with enterprise customers.

You will implement agent identity, authorization, and credential management across production agent fleets, partnering with customers and Okta engineering. This is a high-impact role shaping the future of AI-agent identity at scale.

Responsibilities

• Deploy Okta for AI Agents with enterprise customers: agent identity, authorization, and credential management for production agent fleets.

Job description

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Okta for AI Agents

$269K–$369K agent identity public company principal tier

Bellevue, WA (US/Canada variants open) · Posted July 7, 2026

Why it's interesting

Every enterprise agent deployment hits the same wall — who is this agent and what can it touch? Okta just made answering that a Principal-level FDE job.

The role

Deploy Okta for AI Agents with enterprise customers: agent identity, authorization, and credential management for production agent fleets. A parallel Senior Manager posting ($252K–$388K) confirms Okta is building a full FDE team around agent identity, not hiring a one-off.