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Okta
Full time
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10/06/2026
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Bengaluru, India

Responsibilities

Research and lead AI-assisted defenses for customer tenant hardening, detection, triage, and incident response.
Research and build protections against adversarial ML, prompt injection, agentic protocol abuse, and model or data poisoning.
Research the emerging AI threat landscape and translate findings into a 12–24 month protection strategy.
Architect, build, deploy, and maintain scalable security solutions and automation.
Review and harden Auth0’s AI security offering and recommend mitigations.
Partner with identity security, product-aligned security engineering, and broader Okta Security teams.
Support security operations, investigations, root cause analysis, and mitigation guidance where relevant.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure and/or product security.
Hands-on AI/ML security experience, including attacking, defending, adversarial ML, LLM or prompt-injection attacks, agentic-system abuse, or model abuse.
Hands-on development experience sufficient to prototype tooling, build AI-powered defenses, and operationalize research; Go is preferred.
Working knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure security and Kubernetes.
Strong knowledge of OWASP, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and secure coding practices.
Strong foundation in secure software development lifecycle practices.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience working with globally distributed and remote teams.
Preferred experience includes published threat research, CVEs, conference talks, production AI/ML security tooling, AI safety research, MCP security, identity and access management, full-stack engineering, site reliability engineering, vulnerability and threat management, or governance, risk and compliance.

Benefits

Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
Globally distributed work environment with teams across more than 20 offices.
Immersive, in-person onboarding experience.
Well-being support, social impact programs, talent development, and community connection opportunities.

Okta

Okta builds identity and access management solutions that provide secure authentication and automation for businesses. Our products empower organizations to safely connect any technology, device, or application, making identity central to security and operational efficiency. We cater to companies...

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