# Staff AI Security Engineer

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $161k – $248k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** ai security, Python, Go, AWS, GCP, LangChain, Threat Modeling, prompt injection, mitre atlas, nist ai rmf, owasp, api gateways, Cloud Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Staff AI Security Engineer building enterprise guardrails, threat models, and secure architectures for Okta's agentic AI workflows, models, and autonomous systems. Requires 8+ years security/backend engineering experience, deep AI threat knowledge (prompt injection, OWASP, MITRE ATLAS), and Python/Go proficiency.

## Job Description

## What you’ll be doing

- Design and deploy enterprise AI guardrails, gateways, and other controls to protect agentic workflows from emerging threats.
- Establish security architectures for local and hosted agents to mitigate tool-calling, prompt injection, goal misalignment, and data exfiltration risks.
- Develop secure design patterns and developer tools that allow engineering teams to build and deploy AI features safely and quickly.
- Lead threat modeling and security reviews for agentic AI systems, enterprise deployments, and agent ecosystems.
- Build systems to discover, inventory, and assess AI usage and data flows across the enterprise.
- Design and operate internal AI security platforms and develop integrated AI capabilities that automate complex security operations.
- Drive technical alignment across product, security, and infrastructure teams. Mentor engineers and security practitioners across domains.

## What you’ll bring to the role

- Deep knowledge of the AI threat landscape, including OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF with practical experience in prompt injection, excessive agency, and other AI-related threats.
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering or backend software development, with strong coding proficiency in Python or Go and hands-on cloud experience.
- Experience securing or auditing agentic frameworks (such as LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, or custom tool-calling agents) operating within sandboxed environments.
- Proven ability to design scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), API gateways, proxy architectures, and access controls for enterprise systems.
- Track record of building developer-first security tools and platform controls that maintain engineering velocity.
- Strong communication skills with a history of driving technical strategy, influencing engineering leaders, and mentoring engineers.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.

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