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PrincipalForwardDeployedEngineer-OktaforAIAgents
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“Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents at Okta. Skills: Agent identity, Distributed systems, Identity protocols, AI security. Own the reference architecture. Define agent identity patterns”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years shipping production software, Deep distributed systems experience, Deep identity experience, Authority-level identity protocols, Deep agent security fluency, Expert fine-grained authorization, Proven AI hands-on, Force multiplier record, Customer-facing authority, High agency, founder’s mindset
Nice to Have
Contribution to standards or open source
What You'll Do.
Own the reference architecture
Define agent identity patterns
Define delegation patterns
Define audit patterns
Define kill-switch patterns
Keep patterns current
Lead the hardest accounts
Own strategic deployments
Own regulated deployments
Own technically novel deployments
Raise the technical bar
Review FDEs’ architectures
Coach senior customer engineers
Set the standard for field
Synthesize patterns into POV
Prioritize product roadmap
Represent Okta as authority
Brief Chief AI Officer audiences
Contribute to standards
Carry external technical voice
Resolve difficult situations
Set standard for evals
Set standard for observability
Define authorization latency measurement
Define scope sprawl measurement
Define delegation anomalies measurement
Define audit completeness measurement
Define kill-switch verification measurement
Build team’s leverage
Turn work into modules
Turn work into tooling
Turn work into enablement
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with product leadership; Work with engineering leadership; Coach senior engineers; Mentor senior engineers
Communication Scope
Executive presentations
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
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. About Okta for AI Agents Okta secures access for 20,000 organizations and billions of users. Okta for AI Agents extends that work to the agentic shift. Deploying an AI agent is not like deploying traditional software. You are putting professional work output into production, and it needs deep integration, continuous tuning, and change management. Every agent needs an identity, a scope, an audit trail, and a way to be shut down when it goes wrong. Most enterprises have not built this yet. We are. We hire builders who see the cracks in enterprise agent identity that everyone else has learned to live with. The Role You are the most senior technical field authority for agent identity at Okta. Where a Senior FDE owns the outcome inside one account, you own the patterns that every account and every FDE inherits. You take the hardest and most strategic deployments yourself, set the reference architecture the team builds from, and turn what the field learns into the direction the product takes. You still write code. You also multiply the people around you, and you are the person product and engineering leadership call when an agent identity problem has no precedent. Responsibilities Own the reference architecture. Define the canonical agent identity, delegation, audit, and kill-switch patterns that Senior FDEs deploy across the portfolio, and keep them current as the standards and the product move. Lead the hardest accounts. Personally own the most strategic, regul
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