Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents | Okta

Okta Inc

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Bellevue, WA · Chicago, IL · San Francisco, CA · Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posted 6 days ago $200,000–$275,000 / year
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TL;DR

Join Okta’s strategic customer engagement team as a senior technical consultant, embedding with four to five of Okta’s most critical enterprise clients to build and deploy bespoke agent identity solutions. You will become the trusted technical advisor for agent security, architecting and deploying Okta’s agent security stack into their infrastructure while engaging with senior leadership to brief on AI governance and risk management. Responsibilities include delivering secure agent deployments, aligning architecture decisions with industry standards like OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications and NIST AI RMF, and building evals and observability tools. Ideal candidates have over seven years of hands-on engineering experience in high-throughput systems, familiarity with identity protocols such as OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, and practical experience with AI-native development tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code.

Skills

OAuth 2.0 OIDC SAML SCIM RF8693 token exchange OPA OpenFGA Claude ChatGPT Microsoft Copilot Agentforce Bedrock LangChain GitHub Copilot MCP NIST AI RMF MITRE ATLAS OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications HIPAA FedRAMP SOC 2

What you'll do

  • Become the customer’s trusted technical advisor on agent security.
  • Architect and deploy Okta’s agent security stack into customer infrastructure.
  • Engage senior leadership to brief on agent risk and AI governance.
  • Deliver secure, fully integrated agents in production with identity coverage.
  • Keep deployments aligned with OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications standards.
  • Wire Okta systems into the customer’s existing identity and security stack.
  • Build evaluation tools and observability features for agent performance monitoring.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in shipping production software with operational maturity.
  • Expertise in identity protocols including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and token exchange standards.
  • Knowledge of agent security frameworks such as OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications and NIST AI RMF.
  • Experience with fine-grained authorization using policy engines like OPA or OpenFGA.
  • Hands-on experience building production integrations with AI platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot.
  • Daily use of AI-native development tools such as GitHub Copilot or equivalent.
  • Ability to engage and brief senior leadership on technical architecture and security decisions.

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar 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.[

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