Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents | Okta

Okta Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bellevue, WA · Chicago, IL · San Francisco, CA · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Salary
$200,000–$275,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago

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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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TL;DR · Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents | Okta

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Join Okta’s strategic enterprise team as a senior technical consultant, embedding with four to five key customers to build and deploy secure AI agent identities. You will become the trusted technical voice on agent security, architecting solutions that integrate Okta’s stack into customer infrastructure while ensuring compliance with standards like OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications and NIST AI RMF. Responsibilities include engaging senior leadership, delivering white-glove deployment services, and feeding field insights back to product engineering. Ideal candidates have over seven years of hands-on experience in high-throughput authentication systems, expertise in identity protocols such as OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, and practical knowledge of fine-grained authorization frameworks like OPA and OpenFGA. Additionally, proficiency with AI-native development tools and a strong customer-facing skill set are essential for this role.

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 OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications MITRE ATLAS HIPAA FedRAMP SOC 2

What you'll do

  • Become the customer’s trusted technical voice on agent security.
  • Architect and deploy with the customer’s team to integrate Okta’s agent security stack into their infrastructure.
  • Engage senior leadership by translating technical details into high-level governance requirements.
  • Deliver white-glove deployment of secure agents from prototype through production.
  • Keep deployments defensible by aligning architecture decisions to industry standards like OWASP Top 10 and NIST AI RMF.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with production deployment.
  • Expertise in OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and token exchange protocols.
  • Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS.
  • Experience with fine-grained authorization using policy engines like OPA or OpenFGA.
  • Hands-on experience building production integrations with AI agents and SDKs.
  • Ability to engage senior leadership and provide technical guidance in customer environments.
  • Comfortable with high-throughput authentication and authorization systems.

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