Director, Okta Threat Intelligence | Okta

Okta Inc

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Bellevue, WA · Chicago, IL · New York, NY · Washington, DC Posted 22 days ago $200,000–$275,000 / year
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This role $238k
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This role pays more than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $155,641–$237,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $238k versus about $197k for comparable roles.

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About Okta Inc

Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[

Okta Inc currently has 145 open roles on FindRole.

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At a glance

TL;DR

Join Okta’s Threat Intelligence team as an individual contributor working at the intersection of identity-based attacks and agentic AI. You will gather intelligence requirements from multiple stakeholders, collaborate with product engineering and security teams to anonymize and aggregate threat-related insights from platform data, identify emerging threats, produce actionable intelligence for customers, and measure the impact of your analysis on customer adoption. This role requires strong analytical skills, cyber domain knowledge, and proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis. You will also leverage AI workflows to enhance research efficiency and communicate findings effectively through presentations and succinct writing. Ideal candidates are motivated by driving security best practices and have a proven track record of producing finished intelligence under tight deadlines.

Skills

Python SQL AI CI/CD Kubernetes AWS Terraform Docker Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Git Jenkins

What you'll do

  • Gather intelligence requirements from multiple stakeholders.
  • Derive threat-related insights by anonymizing and aggregating platform data.
  • Research emerging identity-based threats to produce actionable intelligence.
  • Coordinate distribution of intelligence to make it accessible for customers.
  • Brief Okta’s strategic customers on the current threat environment.
  • Measure impact of intelligence products on customer adoption and security.

What we're looking for

  • Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills required.
  • Cyber domain knowledge and experience with identity-based threats needed.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and scripting.
  • Demonstrated ability to produce finished intelligence under tight deadlines.
  • Experience using AI workflows or agents to accelerate research and analysis.

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