Staff Product Security Engineer

Okta
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 180,000 - 247,500 annuallyFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Mentoring","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

A research-oriented security engineering role focusing on agentic AI systems, prompt injection, privilege escalation, and threat modeling across design, code, and runtime to strengthen Okta’s AI security posture and guide product engineering teams.

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Okta
Okta
2 months ago

Staff Product Security Engineer

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Job Summary

A research-oriented security engineering role focusing on agentic AI systems, prompt injection, privilege escalation, and threat modeling across design, code, and runtime to strengthen Okta’s AI security posture and guide product engineering teams.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity

Key Responsibilities

  • •Conduct offensive security research focused on agentic AI systems (prompt injection, agent privilege escalation, tool-binding abuse, and agentic supply chain attacks) across internal developer platforms.
  • •Perform security assessments of Okta’s AI platforms (agentic systems and LLM-integrated products) across design, code, and runtime.
  • •Build reusable security tooling that multiplies the Product Security team’s capability.
  • •Run the AI security vendor and tooling evaluation program: design and operate a benchmarking harness against AI security tools.
  • •Perform manual code review of AI and agent-based system implementations across multiple languages.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 247,500 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of experience in information security, with meaningful depth in application security, offensive research, or AI/ML security
  • •Hands-on experience assessing LLM-integrated systems and agentic AI architectures with demonstrated vulnerabilities
  • •Strong offensive mindset: model adversarial behavior in agentic systems and identify where risks are concrete
  • •Experience building security tooling and automation (scripts, scanners, detection logic, evaluation harnesses) used by engineers
  • •Proficiency in at least two programming languages (Python and one of Go, Java, TypeScript, C/C++)
Experience:7+ yearsCybersecurityAiIdentity
Skills:CommunicationMentoringProblem-solvingLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoJavaTypeScriptC/C++OIDCOAuth 2.0SAMLSASTDASTSCA

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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