Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Role Description

You embed inside four to five of Okta’s most strategic enterprise customers as their dedicated technical partner for agent identity. You sit alongside their identity, platform, and security engineering teams, write production code in their environment, and own the technical outcome from prototype through production.

You are a builder-consultant. You go past architecture diagrams to code, debug, and ship bespoke agent identity solutions inside the customer’s environment. You ship secure agents faster for the customer, and you feed real field insight back to Okta product engineering.

Responsibilities

• Become the customer’s trusted technical voice on agent security.
• Sit in their standups, design reviews, and incident response. Earn a seat on their architecture review board and security council for agent risk decisions.
• Architect and deploy with the customer’s team.
• Build Okta’s agent security stack into their infrastructure: Cross-App Access (XAA), Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA), MCP Gateway, and agent client registration. Own the identity, delegation, audit, and kill-switch architecture end to end, and coach their engineers on the patterns.
• Engage senior leadership.
• Brief the CISO, CIO, identity leaders, Chief AI Officer, and principal architects. Translate token-exchange flows into board-level agent risk, and AI governance mandates into architecture.
• Deliver white-glove deployment.
• Keep deployments defensible.
• Wire Okta into the customer’s stack.
• Build evals and observability.
• Turn field patterns into product.
• Be on site.

Qualifications

• 7+ years shipping production software, still hands-on in the IDE, with on-call experience and operational maturity in systems that authenticate and authorize at high throughput.
• Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RFC 8693 token exchange, act claims, CIMD and DCR, DPoP.
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS. Comfortable mapping deployments to HIPAA, FedRAMP, and SOC 2.
• ReBAC and ABAC with policy engines (OPA, Cedar, OpenFGA, or equivalent), and a working understanding of how agents acquire tokens, call APIs, and delegate.
• Built production integrations with Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Agentforce, Bedrock, LangChain, CrewAI, the OpenAI Agents SDK, or MCP servers.
• Daily use of Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent.
• At home in a customer standup and a CISO briefing on the same day. You build trust with senior engineering leaders and you stay in the room when their internal politics get sharp.
• A zero-to-one self-starter who owns outcomes end to end.

Requirements

• 7+ years shipping production software, still hands-on in the IDE, with on-call experience and operational maturity in systems that authenticate and authorize at high throughput.
• Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RFC 8693 token exchange, act claims, CIMD and DCR, DPoP.
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS. Comfortable mapping deployments to HIPAA, FedRAMP, and SOC 2.
• ReBAC and ABAC with policy engines (OPA, Cedar, OpenFGA, or equivalent), and a working understanding of how agents acquire tokens, call APIs, and delegate.
• Built production integrations with Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Agentforce, Bedrock, LangChain, CrewAI, the OpenAI Agents SDK, or MCP servers.
• Daily use of Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent.
• At home in a customer standup and a CISO briefing on the same day. You build trust with senior engineering leaders and you stay in the room when their internal politics get sharp.
• A zero-to-one self-starter who owns outcomes end to end.

Benefits

• Annual base salary range: $200,000 - $275,000 USD.
• Equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave).
• Immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.