Senior Security Engineer, Platform Security (Customer Identity)
Senior Security Engineer, Platform Security (Customer Identity)
Okta
United States
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Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The CIC Security Engineering Team
Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud (CIC), powered by Auth0 technology, is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.
The Security Engineer Opportunity
Reporting to the Platform Security Manager, this role will ensure that CIC Regulated Platforms meet or exceed the security requirements for FedRamp and other highly regulated frameworks. This role is focused on securing the platforms and pipelines that CIC uses to build and deploy its services.
Required Qualifications
This is an Okta Federal Position and only open to U.S. person Status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refuge, or Asylee)*
What You’ll Be Doing
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:
$136,000—$204,000 USD
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:
$152,000—$228,000 USD
What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
The CIC Security Engineering Team
Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud (CIC), powered by Auth0 technology, is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.
The Security Engineer Opportunity
Reporting to the Platform Security Manager, this role will ensure that CIC Regulated Platforms meet or exceed the security requirements for FedRamp and other highly regulated frameworks. This role is focused on securing the platforms and pipelines that CIC uses to build and deploy its services.
Required Qualifications
This is an Okta Federal Position and only open to U.S. person Status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refuge, or Asylee)*
What You’ll Be Doing
- Build and maintain security controls
- Build tooling and automation to make security frictionless for CIC platform engineers
- Develop, document, and implement design patterns, standards and best practices for Regulated Platforms
- Identify gaps in our security posture and prioritize remediation efforts
- You have 5+ years of experience in Cloud Security Engineering
- You have strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP services and security controls
- You have proficiency with at least one of the following languages:
- Python
- Go
- JavaScript
- You have proficiency writing and deploying Terraform code
- You have experience with the identity and access management (IAM) domain
- You have strong written and verbal communication
- You have experience working in highly regulated environments such as FedRamp
- You have experience working with and securing containers and Kubernetes
- You have experience working with a fully distributed, remote team
- You have a robust knowledge of security engineering and application security
- This position requires access to controlled unclassified information or other sensitive government data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:
$136,000—$204,000 USD
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:
$152,000—$228,000 USD
What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.
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Seniority level
Not Applicable -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Engineering -
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, and Computer and Network Security
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