Principal Identity Engineer

As a Principal Identity Engineer at Okta, you will be the cornerstone of our internal IAM team, driving the vision, strategy, and execution of our identity infrastructure.

The Identity team's mission is to secure the world's identity connections while building the foundational trust layer for the modern enterprise.

In this role, you will champion our "Customer Zero" philosophy, partnering directly with our product engineering teams to deploy Okta's newest features, products, and capabilities internally before they ever hit the market.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary bridge between internal stakeholders, IAM and Okta's core Product teams.
• Serve as a foundational pillar and mentor for the IAM engineering team, fostering a culture of high performance, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
• Embody the philosophy of "Move fast, simplify, and repeat."
• Take initiative to identify what is needed next and lead the organization toward it.
• Partner daily with cross-functional stakeholders to push the boundaries of identity security, modern authentication, and governance.
• Act as both the architect and the technical implementer for key strategic initiatives.
• Regularly deliver clear, data-driven leadership updates.
• Establish, track, and report on key performance metrics and KPIs.
• Facilitate design strategy and successful execution of playbook adoption.
• Drive the secure adoption of AI technologies.

Technical Requirements & Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience implementing and/or supporting enterprise IAM solutions
• Expertise with industry IAM concepts and best practices
• Deep expertise in modern authentication protocols (OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0) and advanced multi-factor authentication paradigms
• Comprehensive understanding of secure session lifetimes, token binding, token revocation strategies, and continuous access evaluation
• Proven experience designing and securing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and cloud-native service-to-service authentication
• Deep knowledge of enterprise secrets management architectures
• Advanced proficiency using IaC tools, specifically Okta Workflows and Terraform
• Strong background in integrating IAM configuration and testing into modern CI/CD pipelines