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Salary: USD 180,000 - 247,500 / annual
Okta is seeking a Staff AI Security Engineer to join its Security team and define the technical vision, architecture, and hands-on security controls for AI models, agentic workflows, and autonomous systems. This is a senior individual contributor role for a hands-on engineer who can design scalable AI security infrastructure, mentor engineers, and partner with cross-functional teams to build secure "paved roads" for AI innovation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and deploy enterprise AI guardrails, gateways, and controls to protect agentic workflows from emerging threats
- Establish security architectures for local and hosted agents to mitigate tool-calling, prompt injection, goal misalignment, and data exfiltration risks
- Develop secure design patterns and developer tools that allow engineering teams to build and deploy AI features safely and quickly
- Lead threat modeling and security reviews for agentic AI systems, enterprise deployments, and agent ecosystems
- Build systems to discover, inventory, and assess AI usage and data flows across the enterprise
- Design and operate internal AI security platforms and develop integrated AI capabilities that automate complex security operations
- Drive technical alignment across product, security, and infrastructure teams; mentor engineers and security practitioners
Required qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering or backend software development
- Deep knowledge of the AI threat landscape, including OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF
- Practical experience with prompt injection, excessive agency, and other AI-related threats
- Strong coding proficiency in Python or Go
- Hands-on cloud experience (AWS/GCP)
- Experience securing or auditing agentic frameworks (LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, or custom tool-calling agents)
- Proven ability to design scalable cloud infrastructure, API gateways, proxy architectures, and access controls
- Track record of building developer-first security tools and platform controls
- Strong communication skills and history of driving technical strategy
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience
