Staff Adversarial Engineer

Proven experience in cybersecurity and/or related fields, with hands-on expertise in adversary simulation, red/purple teaming, or security research.
Proven experience simulating attacker behavior in SaaS applications, user endpoints, and cloud environments, including containerized infrastructure.
Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, attack techniques, and threat actor methodologies.
Analytical mindset, with excellent problem-solving skills to uncover potential risks and improve detection and response.
Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and geographies.
Relevant certifications are a plus (OSCP, OSEP, OSMR, GXPN, GDAT, etc)

Collaborate Across Cyber Defense: Work closely with various teams within Cyber Defense, including Defensive Cyber Operations, to simulate real-world threat scenarios.
Simulate and Document Attacker Behavior: Replicate sophisticated adversary tactics to enhance threat detection and response strategies, ensuring real-world scenarios are accurately represented.
Conduct Adversarial Research: Perform in-depth research on Okta’s products and platforms from an adversarial perspective to identify potential avenues of exploitation, abuse, and overlooked attack vectors.
Provide Actionable Insights: Translate adversarial operations and research into actionable recommendations that empower teams to implement proactive detection strategies and improve incident response workflows.
Partner Across Teams: Collaborate with the broader security and engineering teams to share findings, highlight security gaps, and drive improvements.
Document and Present Findings: Clearly document research, adversarial operations, and results, presenting actionable insights to stakeholders at all levels.
Contribute to Program Development: Drive the continuous improvement of the Adversarial Engineering and Operations program by developing internal tools, methodologies, and processes that enhance our approach and capabilities.