Staff Security Engineer – Identity Defense Operations
| Company | Okta |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, Washington, DC, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Salary | $161000 – $241000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Passionate about defending people’s online identities from malicious actors
- Curious about systems and how they interact
- Enjoy automating tasks and creating tools when necessary
- Experience with SaaS products
- Experience in identity and access management, security, or data analytics projects
- Experience in leading or contributing to technology-focused teams
- Experience in participating or leading complex time-sensitive investigations
- Ability to identify and solve problems related to complex technology stacks
- Familiarity with technologies and protocols supporting identity federation and access control models (e.g., SAML 2.0, XACML, WS-Federation, WS-Trust, OAuth, OpenID)
- Ability to access federal environments and/or protected federal data, requiring U.S. Person status
Responsibilities
- Identify and respond to attacks targeting customers on the Okta platform through detailed analysis of Okta’s product telemetry
- Assist customer Security teams during times of crisis by participating in their incident bridges and representing Okta Security
- Develop dashboards and detection logic to identify known patterns of attack that may succeed should customers not implement best practice security controls
- Develop and maintain security best practices that put Okta’s security features to use and enable customer facing teams to better communicate how these controls mitigate real world attacks
- Identify gaps in Okta’s security features or secure by default settings that enable attackers to exploit our customers and collaborate with Okta’s product teams to design and implement additional controls
- Work closely with Okta’s data scientists in order to test and train new machine learning models by validating real world data and providing known good and bad datasets
- Collaborate with Okta’s Cyber Threat Research team to share details of threat actor activity and prioritize analytics based on the current cyber threat landscape as it applies to Okta’s customers
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.