Technical Architect

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI.

Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.

This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes.

We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.

This is an opportunity to do career-defining work.

We're all in on this mission.

If you are too, let's talk.

• Define and drive the technical direction for major threat research initiatives.
• Identify emerging attack surfaces, adversary behaviors, and areas where additional research can materially improve Okta's understanding of the threat landscape.
• Lead complex and open-ended research efforts into novel adversary behaviors, attack techniques, campaigns, and security risks.
• Develop research hypotheses and identify the telemetry, artifacts, intelligence, and other inputs necessary to investigate them.
• Develop new research methodologies, analytical approaches, prototypes, and tooling that improve the organization's ability to identify and understand threats.
• Analyze security telemetry and technical artifacts to identify attacker behaviors, infrastructure, techniques, trends, and previously unknown activity.
• Translate threat research into actionable outcomes, including detections, threat hunts, intelligence, product capabilities, tooling, research publications, and customer protections.
• Establish and improve research methodologies, technical standards, and processes that enable the Threat Research organization to operate effectively at scale.
• Partner closely with Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, and Engineering to ensure research findings are incorporated into the broader Okta security ecosystem.
• Provide senior technical leadership during complex investigations and significant customer security events.
• Participate in architecture and product design discussions where understanding adversary behavior can improve product capabilities and security outcomes.
• Evaluate new technologies, datasets, telemetry sources, and analytical techniques that can expand Okta's research capabilities.