Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This is an chance to do career-defining work. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.

This role does two things at once: it researches how attackers will use AI against identity systems, and it researches and builds how we use AI to defend our products, our infrastructure, and — most importantly — our customers' tenants.
This role is a key member of the Security team embedded within the Customer Identity product unit and works across multiple functions to get ahead of emerging AI threats, supporting the growth of our global Customer Identity business.
We are an engineering-focused team that seeks to stay on the cutting edge of security technology and the threat landscape. In this role you won't just assess our current AI security offering — you'll research what we should be protecting customers from one to two years ahead, turn that research into concrete protections, and help put AI-assisted defenses into the hands of the teams and customers who protect their tenants.
Research and lead how we can use AI to protect customer tenants — both proactively (hardening posture before an attack) and during active incidents (accelerating detection, triage, and response)
Research and build protections against novel AI attacks that Auth0 and Auth0's customers can be subjected to — adversarial ML, prompt injection, abuse of agentic protocols (MCP, A2A, UCP, and emerging equivalents), model and data poisoning — as they apply to identity systems and customer tenants




Partner with the identity security teams to help customers strengthen their own tenant security posture through AI-assisted defenses
Research the emerging AI threat landscape and translate it into a forward-looking (12–24 month) view of what we need to protect ourselves and our customers from — then architect, recommend, and build the tooling to get there
Review and harden Auth0's AI security offering, identifying gaps and recommending mitigations before they're exploited
Partner across a globally distributed product-aligned team of security engineers to turn research into shipped protections for customer tenants
Build, deploy & maintain scalable security solutions and automation that operationalize AI threat defenses at scale
Help meet our operational security commitments by thinking like an attacker, assessing the risk, and advising on mitigation strategies
Collaborate with the Okta Security team on security operations and, where relevant, support investigations and root cause analysis
You have hands-on experience with AI/ML security — attacking, defending, or both (e.g., adversarial ML, LLM/prompt-injection attacks, agentic-system or model abuse), and an interest in using AI to build defenses, not just to study attacks
You have 4+ years of experience in security engineering, with a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure and/or product security
You have hands-on development experience — Go preferred — sufficient to prototype tooling, build AI-powered defenses, and operationalize your research
You have working knowledge and hands-on experience with one or more of the following:
AWS and/or Azure security
Kubernetes
You have strong knowledge of OWASP (including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications) and secure coding best practices




You have a strong foundation in secure software development lifecycle best practices
You have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn research into clear guidance for engineering and product teams
You have experience working with a globally distributed and remote team
Bonus points if:
You have published threat research, CVEs, or conference talks in AI/ML security or identity security
You have built AI/ML-powered security tooling or defensive automation in a production environment
You have working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following:
Adversarial ML, model red-teaming, or AI safety research
The AI agent / MCP ecosystem and its security implications
Full-stack engineering
Site reliability engineering
Governance, risk and compliance

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📌 Senior Full Stack Software Developer -Remote job (Bengaluru)
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