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Staff AI Security Engineer

Okta
Washington, DC $180k - $248k/yr Full time Posted 4h ago
Agent Agentic Ai Ai Security Application Security Artificial Intelligence Cloud Platforms Data Security Engineer Generative AI Information Security InfoSec Security Security Guardrails Security Standards Threat Modeling
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Job Description

Okta is seeking a Staff AI Security Engineer to shape the technical direction for securing AI models and agentic systems. This senior individual contributor role focuses on scalable AI security infrastructure, hands-on control development, and cross-functional partnership to enable safe AI innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Secure AI implementations: Design and deploy enterprise AI guardrails, gateways, and related controls to protect agentic workflows from emerging threats.
  • Agent hardening and sandboxing: Create security architectures for local and hosted agents to reduce risks including tool-calling abuse, prompt injection, goal misalignment, and data exfiltration.
  • Define paved roads and security standards: Develop secure design patterns and developer tools that help engineering teams build and ship AI features safely and efficiently.
  • Threat modeling for AI workflows: Lead threat modeling and security reviews for agentic AI systems, enterprise deployments, and agent ecosystems.
  • AI discovery and visibility: Build systems to discover, inventory, and evaluate AI usage and data flows across the enterprise.
  • Agentic platform infrastructure: Design and operate internal AI security platforms and create integrated capabilities to automate complex security operations.
  • Technical leadership and mentorship: Align product, security, and infrastructure teams on technical strategy while mentoring engineers and security practitioners across domains.

Requirements

  • AI threat expertise: Deep knowledge of the AI threat landscape, including OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF, with practical experience addressing threats such as prompt injection and excessive agency.
  • Security engineering or backend experience: 8+ years in security engineering or backend software development, with strong coding proficiency in Python or Go and hands-on cloud experience.
  • Agentic framework security: Experience securing or auditing agentic frameworks (examples include LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, or custom tool-calling agents) in sandboxed environments.
  • Cloud and access control: Proven ability to design scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), API gateways, proxy architectures, and enterprise access controls.
  • Developer-first tooling: Track record of building developer-first security tools and platform controls that support engineering velocity.
  • Communication and influence: Strong communication skills, including experience driving technical strategy, influencing engineering leaders, and mentoring engineers.
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.

Technologies

  • Python, Go
  • OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF
  • LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK
  • AWS, GCP

Role Details

  • Location: Washington, DC (hybrid)
  • Salary: USD 180,000 - 247,500 per year

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