Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Okta
London
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 114,000 - 172,000 annuallyFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["OAuth 2.0","OIDC","SAML","SCIM","RFC 8693","DPoP","ReBAC","ABAC","OPA","OpenFGA","Cedar","AI","MCP"]

Senior technical field authority for agent identity, owning reference architectures and patterns across multiple accounts. You’ll lead strategic, regulated deployments, shape roadmaps with product/engineering, mentor engineers, and represent Okta’s technical voice to CISOs and executives while staying hands-on with code and AI integrations.

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Okta
3 months ago

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior technical field authority for agent identity, owning reference architectures and patterns across multiple accounts. You’ll lead strategic, regulated deployments, shape roadmaps with product/engineering, mentor engineers, and represent Okta’s technical voice to CISOs and executives while staying hands-on with code and AI integrations.
Location: London
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the reference architecture. Define the canonical agent identity, delegation, audit, and kill-switch patterns that Senior FDEs deploy across the portfolio, and keep them current as the standards and the product move.
  • •Lead the hardest accounts. Personally own the most strategic, regulated, or technically novel deployments, the ones where there is no playbook yet.
  • •Raise the technical bar. Review other FDEs’ architectures, coach senior customer engineers and your own team, and set the standard for what good looks like in the field.
  • •Shape the roadmap. Synthesize patterns across every account into a clear point of view, and work directly with product and engineering leadership to prioritize what ships next.
  • •Represent Okta as a technical authority. Brief CISO, CIO, and Chief AI Officer audiences, contribute to the standards and frameworks shaping agent identity, and carry the external technical voice.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 114,000 - 172,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Engineering depth with 10+ years shipping production software, including deep distributed systems and identity experience, while remaining hands-on
  • •Authority-level identity protocols experience (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RFC 8693 token exchange, act claims, CIMD and DCR, DPoP)
  • •Deep agent security fluency (OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2)
  • •Expert fine-grained authorization (ReBAC/ABAC with policy engines such as OPA, Cedar, OpenFGA)
  • •Proven AI hands-on with production integrations across major agent platforms and daily AI-native development
  • •Force multiplier—mentoring senior engineers and setting technical direction across teams/accounts
  • •Customer-facing authority from IDE to boardroom, trusted by CISOs/principal engineers
  • •High agency, founder’s mindset—building a function, not just an account
  • •Ability to travel up to 35%
Experience:10+ yearsIdentityDistributed systemsEnterprise
Skills:OAuth 2.0OIDCSAMLSCIMRFC 8693DPoPReBACABACOPAOpenFGACedarAIMCP
Languages:English
Tech Stack:OAuth 2.0OIDCSAMLSCIMRFC 8693DPoPOPAOpenFGACedarReBACABACAI

Company Brief

Okta
Provides identity and access management cloud solutions that help organizations secure and manage user authentication, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management across applications and devices.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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