
Okta · Washington
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 t...
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.
Okta is the foundation for secure connections between people and technology. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows
people to access applications on any device at any time, while allowing for strong security protection. The Okta service
integrates directly with an organization’s existing directories and identity systems, as well as 6,500+ applications.
Because Okta runs on an integrated platform, organizations can implement Okta quickly at large scale and low total cost.
Thousands of customers, including Adobe, Allergan, Chiquita, LinkedIn, and Western Union, trust Okta to help their organizations
work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure.
To learn more about Okta, visit https://www.okta.com.
In this role, you will be tasked with providing hands-on implementation and deployment services to our customers. We are looking
for an experienced, enthusiastic and hands-on leader who can rapidly learn the Okta platform, our technology and the value
proposition that we bring to customers of all sizes. You will lead multiple concurrent customer deployment projects with the
number one goal to ensure long-term customer success. Additionally you will engage with the full Customer Success team in order to
assure a smooth transition post-deployment to the support/maintenance phases. Finally, you will also be responsible for the
continuous improvement of delivery processes and methods.
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Standards.
of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status
(e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
programs
A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline required.
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The Okta Experience
We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate.
Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our
mission and team from day one.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental
disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions
records, consistent with applicable laws.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use
this Form to request an accommodation.
Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York
City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment
and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City,
please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.
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. Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Okta for AI Agents 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, develop sample and bespoke code, 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 reviews. Earn a seat on their architecture review board and security council for agent risk decisions. * Architect and deploy with the customer’s team. Build Okta’s agent security stack into their infrastructure: Cross-App Access (XAA), Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA), MCP Gateway, and agent client registration. Own the identity, delegation, audit, and kill-switch architecture end to end, and coach their engineers on the patterns. * Engage senior leadership. Brief the CISO, CIO, identity leaders, Chief AI Officer, and principal architects. Translate token-exchange flows into board-level agent risk, and AI governance mandates into architecture. * Deliver white-glove deployment. Agents in production with full identity coverage, security review passed, governance requirements met, and posture visibility online. The customer points to you as the reason their agent program is real. * Keep deployments defensible. Align architecture decisions to OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS, and to HIPAA, FedRAMP, or SOC 2 where the customer is regulated. * Wire Okta into the customer’s stack. Connect O4AA to their IdP for human-to-agent links, IGA for agent lifecycle, ISPM for posture, SIEM and EDR for behavior coverage, and policy engines for runtime decisions. * Build evals and observability. Authorization decision latency, scope sprawl across agents, anomalous delegation chains, audit completeness, kill-switch verification, and rogue agent detection. * Turn field patterns into product. Extract the recurring gaps from their architects and governance leads, and convert them into reusable modules and roadmap fixes that ship for every other customer. * Be on site. Regular presence at customer locations. Trust and governance alignment happen in the room. REQUIREMENTS * Engineering pedigree. 7+ years shipping production software, still hands-on in the IDE, with on-call experience and operational maturity in systems that authenticate and authorize at high throughput. * Identity protocols. OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RFC 8693 token exchange, act claims, CIMD and DCR, DPoP. * Agent security frameworks and platforms. Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS. Familiarity with Python, MCP, A2A, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act. Comfortable mapping deployments to HIPAA, FedRAMP, and SOC 2. * Fine-grained authorization. ReBAC and ABAC with policy engines (OPA, Cedar, OpenFGA, or equivalent), and a working understanding of how agents acquire tokens, call APIs, and delegate. * AI hands-on. Build production integrations with Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Agentforce, Bedrock, LangChain, CrewAI, the OpenAI Agents SDK, or MCP servers. * AI-native development. Daily use of Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent. * Customer-facing range. At home in a customer standup and a CISO briefing on the same day. You build trust with senior engineering leaders and you stay in the room when their internal politics get sharp. * High agency, founder’s mindset. A zero-to-one self-starter who owns outcomes end to end. * Ability to travel, on occasion internationally, up to 35% The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being * Driving Social Impact * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.
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. We are seeking a Principal People Business Partner to provide strategic partnership to the CTO and 10 VP/SVP+ leaders within the global Okta R&D Engineering organization. While supporting a broader workforce of 1,200+ employees (including 730 in AMER), this role’s primary mandate is to deliver high-impact executive consulting. By offloading routine tactical and transactional work to Center of Excellence (COE) partners through our Pod model, the Principal PBP serves as a dedicated strategic advisor and coach to the most senior technical leadership to drive critical business objectives. Job Duties and Responsibilities: * Provide strategic advice, counsel, and consultative solutions to technical leadership on people management aspects of the Engineering organization, including driving organizational design, team effectiveness, executing change management strategy, and employee engagement solutions. * Collaborate and consult on the design and delivery of People programs with the COEs to deliver effective solutions to the business. * Lead the "AI-augmented" workforce transformation by consulting on role redesign, skill evolution, and strategic talent density to ensure humans and AI agents work together effectively. * Orchestrate structural unification and complex organizational design for the VP+ population, optimizing spans, layers, and global delivery models for maximum operational effectiveness. * Provide high-impact strategic consulting to executive leadership on organizational design, change management, and team effectiveness, utilizing the Pod model to delegate routine People programs to COEs. * Deliver data-driven talent insights through Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), identifying trends to influence long-term workforce planning and executive decision-making. * Partner with team members throughout the People organization to communicate and educate on policies, procedures, and compliance. * Understand the Engineering client groups strategy, technical challenges, innovation initiatives, and global delivery model. * Lead the execution of critical talent management cycles, including annual performance reviews, calibration sessions, talent talks, and annual rewards planning. Partner with executive leadership to leverage these processes as strategic levers to cultivate a high-performance culture, drive AI-driven innovation, and ensure rigorous talent density within the organization. Required Skills and Experience: * 10+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience * Experience supporting large-scale technical organizations of 1,000+ employees across global regions. * Demonstrated experience coaching and mentoring senior technical leadership (VP and SVP levels). * Advanced proficiency in organizational design for complex, global engineering structures and matrixed environments. * Exceptional communication skills combined with demonstrated problem solving ability are critical for this role. * Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment. * Viewed as a resource for advice and guidance by peers and senior leaders. * Good understanding of matrix structures and politically savvy. * Ability to cope with pressure maintaining a high standard of deliverables. * Excellent organization and follow-through skills. * Ability to analyze and utilize data to make informed short and long term business decisions. * Ability to work in a fast moving and changing environment. * Ability to effectively communicate in various mediums to a wide variety of audiences. * Able to build relationships, develop credibility with internal clients and mentor HR colleagues. * Strong ability to multi-task and respond effectively to changing priorities and demands. * Strong experience working with high-growth technology companies and R&D functions. #LI-MK1 #LI-hybrid P12240_3474166 The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $179,000—$246,000 USD Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us. The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $160,000—$220,000 USD The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being * Driving Social Impact * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.
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. Position Description: Solutions Engineers at Okta are involved in all stages of the customer’s development lifecycle and are experienced using presentations, email, phone and social media to connect with customers. We are looking for great teammates that can build sales presentations, product demonstrations, and educate customers (everyone from developers to product managers to C-level executives) on the best cloud security technology. Okta’s Solutions Engineers empathize with customers and quickly discern their true technical needs by asking detailed and clarifying questions and presenting solutions that target those needs. You have the rare combination of technical savviness and business insight and you’re looking for a career where you can utilize both. As a Solutions Engineer at Okta, you will hone each of these skills by advising a diverse set of customers on what is possible using Okta’s Identity Platform. Job Duties and Responsibilities: * Support the sales team in helping customers understand what they can achieve with Okta * Understand customer requirements and communicate the business value of solving technology problems using cloud technology * Execute the delivery of POCs for customers that have more complex use cases, collaborating with other Okta engineering teams as needed * Craft technical content to show customers how to implement specific use cases or standard methodologies for new technologies * Prepare demos and proof of concepts to demonstrate various use cases for Okta’s Platform * Distill and communicate customer needs and product feedback to Product Management, Engineering, Marketing and Sales Required Skills: * 8+ years pre-sales engineering experience. * A passion to serve the customer, which has played out in some customer-facing role like consulting or support, ideally solutions engineering. * An ability to quickly communicate complex ideas around a technical topic, ideally on the fly at a whiteboard. * Experience with at least one standard network security protocol. (eg. OAuth, OAuth2, SAML, LDAP) * We are looking for someone with hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: web (JavaScript, HTML, frontend frameworks) development, mobile (iOS, Android) development, backend (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby) development, IP-based real-time communications * An understanding of core security concerns within a typical application. (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS, XSRF) * You are an elite communicator. * Confident dispensing knowledge to a highly skilled and experienced audience. * Typically 10-25% travel. * Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or a comparable field is preferred. ((Colorado, Washington, New York only*) Minimum OTE of $XXX/year + equity + benefits *Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)) Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer Okta is rethinking the traditional work environment, providing our employees with the flexibility to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, no matter where they are located. We enable a flexible approach to work, meaning for roles where it makes sense, you can work from the office, or from home, regardless of where you live. Okta invests in the best technologies and provides flexible benefits and collaborative work environments/experiences, empowering employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Find your place at Okta https://www.okta.com/company/careers/. (P10296_3493424) LL - Remote The OTE range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $269,000—$369,000 USD Below is the annual On Target Compensation (OTE) range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual OTE, which is inclusive of base salary and incentive compensation, will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable) and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us. The annual OTE range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $240,000—$340,000 USD The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being * Driving Social Impact * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.