Security Engineering Manager, Identity & AI Threat Defense

Okta Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The World’s Identity Company is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead threat protection and security development across Auth0 Customer Identity. You will guide AI-driven defenses, secrets handling, and security tooling, partnering with Identity Security and product teams to safeguard customers at scale.

You will mentor a distributed team, set a long-term roadmap, and influence architecture while staying technically hands-on enough to evaluate research and designs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering.
• 3+ years of experience managing security or software engineering teams.
• Hands-on development background in Go/Node to guide design and review of micro-services.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML security, adversarial ML, prompt-injection, or related areas.
• Working knowledge of secrets management and cryptographic key handling.

Responsibilities

• Hire, lead, coach, and develop globally distributed security engineers.
• Define and execute a multi-quarter roadmap aligned with business goals and security strategy.
• Lead scalable security software development and secrets protection across Customer Identity infrastructure.
• Drive secure-by-default secrets handling across engineering teams.
• Research AI threat landscape and translate into a 12–24 month protection plan.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud infrastructure

AI security

Leadership

Go / Node.js

Tools

Go

Node.js

Job description

The World’s Identity Company is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead threat protection and security development across Auth0 Customer Identity. You will guide AI-driven defenses, secrets handling, and security tooling, partnering with Identity Security and product teams to safeguard customers at scale.

You will mentor a distributed team, set a long-term roadmap, and influence architecture while staying technically hands-on enough to evaluate research and designs.