# Senior Software engineer - Advanced Threat Protection

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: Bengaluru, India
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Okta is seeking a knowledgeable and research-focused Security Engineer to join a new Advanced Threat Protection team within Auth0 Customer Identity. As a Senior Software engineer, you will play a crucial role in researching how attackers will use AI against identity systems and building protections against novel AI attacks.

Responsibilities:

- Research and lead how to use AI to protect customer tenants , both proactively and during active incidents

- Research and build protections against novel AI attacks, such as adversarial ML, prompt injection, and model and data poisoning

- Partner with identity security teams to help customers strengthen their tenant security posture through AI-assisted defenses

- Research the emerging AI threat landscape and translate it into a forward-looking view of what needs to be protected

- Review and harden Auth0's AI security offering, identifying gaps and recommending mitigations

- Collaborate with a globally distributed team of security engineers to turn research into shipped protections for customer tenants

- Establish a deep understanding of Okta Customer Identity products and infrastructure

- Build, deploy, and maintain scalable security solutions and automation that operationalize AI threat defenses at scale

Requirements:

- Hands-on experience with AI/ML security, including attacking and defending

- 4+ years of experience in security engineering, with a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure and/or product security

- Hands-on development experience, preferably in Go, to prototype tooling and build AI-powered defenses

- Working knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure security, Kubernetes, and secure coding best practices

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn research into clear guidance for engineering and product teams

## Skills

### Required
- AI/ML security
- cloud infrastructure
- product security
- Go
- AWS security
- Azure security
- Kubernetes
- secure coding best practices

### Nice to have
- adversarial ML
- model red-teaming
- AI safety research
- identity and access management
- full-stack engineering
- site reliability engineering
- vulnerability and threat management
- governance, risk and compliance

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