Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents

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CanadaFull-TimeSenior
Salary200,000 - 275,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
7+ years
Required Skills
LLM

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in production software engineering
  • Deep understanding of identity protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and token exchange mechanisms
  • Experience with fine-grained authorization models (ABAC, ReBAC) and policy engines (e.g., OPA, Cedar, OpenFGA or equivalent)
  • Strong familiarity with AI agent ecosystems, including LLM-based systems and agent frameworks
  • Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as OWASP for AI systems, NIST AI RMF, SOC 2, HIPAA, or FedRAMP
  • Experience working directly with enterprise customers
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous, zero-to-one environments with high ownership and urgency

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted technical advisor for AI agent security, participating in architecture reviews, engineering standups, and incident response discussions with client teams
  • Design and implement end-to-end identity and authorization architectures for AI agents, including delegation, auditability, lifecycle management, and kill-switch mechanisms
  • Integrate identity, access, and security tooling into customer ecosystems
  • Deliver production-grade deployments of AI agent security solutions
  • Engage with senior stakeholders (CISO, CIO, AI leadership) to translate technical architecture into business risk and governance frameworks
  • Develop observability and evaluation systems for agent behavior, including authorization metrics, anomaly detection, and audit integrity
  • Capture field insights and feed them back into internal product and engineering teams
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