Okta

AI

SeniorForwardDeployedEngineer

$200–275k United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Okta. Skills: Agent identity, Production code, Technical partner, Security. Embed in strategic enterprise customers. Act as dedicated technical partner”

What You'll Achieve.

Ship secure agents faster for the customer; Deliver white-glove deployment; Agents in production with full identity coverage; Security review passed; Governance requirements met; Posture visibility online; Customer points to you as the reason their agent program is real; Keep deployments defensible; Turn field patterns into product; Extract recurring gaps; Convert recurring gaps into reusable modules; Convert recurring gaps into roadmap fixes that ship for every other customer

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Solve complex challenges; See the cracks in enterprise agent identity

Eligibility Requirements

Be on site, Regular presence at customer locations, On-call experience

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years shipping production software, Hands-on in the IDE, On-call experience, Operational maturity in systems that authenticate and authorize at high throughput, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RFC 8693 token exchange, Act claims, CIMD and DCR, DPoP, OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, ReBAC, ABAC, Policy engines, Built production integrations with Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Agentforce, Bedrock, LangChain, CrewAI, the OpenAI Agents SDK, or MCP servers, Daily use of Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent, Customer-facing range, High agency, founder’s mindset

Nice to Have

MCP, A2A, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act, OPA, Cedar, OpenFGA

What You'll Do.

Embed in strategic enterprise customers

Act as dedicated technical partner

Write production code

Own technical outcome

Build bespoke agent identity solutions

Ship secure agents faster

Feed field insight back to product

Become trusted technical voice

Earn seat on architecture review board

Earn seat on security council

Architect and deploy security stack

Build Okta's agent security stack

kill-switch architecture

Coach engineers on patterns

Engage senior leadership

Translate token-exchange flows

Translate AI governance mandates

Deliver white-glove deployment

Ensure full identity coverage

Ensure security review passed

Ensure governance requirements met

Ensure posture visibility online

Keep deployments defensible

Align architecture decisions

Wire Okta into customer's stack

Connect O4AA to policy engines

Build evals and observability

Turn field patterns into product

Extract recurring gaps

Convert gaps into reusable modules

Convert gaps into roadmap fixes

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Sit alongside identity, platform, and security engineering teams; Work with product engineering; Collaborate with customer's team; Coach their engineers; Engage senior leadership; Brief CISO, CIO, identity leaders, Chief AI Officer, principal architects; Work with architects and governance leads

Communication Scope

Trusted technical voice; Customer-facing range; Build trust with senior engineering leaders; Brief CISO, CIO, identity leaders, Chief AI Officer, principal architects

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 embed inside four to five of Okta’s most strategic enterprise customers as their dedicated technical partner for agent identity. You sit alongside their identity, platform, and security engineering teams, write production code in their environment, and own the technical outcome from prototype through production. You are a builder-consultant. You go past architecture diagrams to code, debug, and ship bespoke agent identity solutions inside the customer’s environment. You ship secure agents faster for the customer, and you feed real field insight back to Okta product engineering. Responsibilities Become the customer’s trusted technical voice on agent security. Sit in their standups, design reviews, and incident response. Earn a seat on their architecture review board and security council for agent risk decisions. Architect and deploy with the cust

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