Okta Identity Architect, Okta
$216-332k
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Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
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Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$216-332k
Salary dependent on location
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Proven Okta Platform Expertise: Extensive, practical experience managing, configuring, and troubleshooting Okta in complex enterprise production environments. You possess active, hands-on mastery of the Okta Identity Engine (OIE), Directory Integrations, Advanced Policies, Workflows, and Okta Platform APIs—whether you learned this on the job or proved it through certifications
- Protocol & Threat Literacy: Deep, hands-on knowledge of core protocols: OAuth2/OIDC (especially Token Exchange), SAML, mTLS, JWT, and Model Context Protocol (MCP). Strong technical understanding of modern identity threat vectors (AiTM phishing, info-stealer malware, session hijacking)
- Technical Influence: Serve as an equal technical peer to product management and product engineering, collaborating on feasibility, platform architecture paths, and real-world system behaviors
- Practitioner Empathy & Communication: Exceptional ability to connect with and speak the language of other hands-on platform engineers and security administrators. You excel at translating highly complex platform configurations into clear, peer-to-peer technical explanations, whether in documentation, video walkthroughs, or collaborative technical workshops
- Nice To Have: Okta Certified Administrator or Okta Certified Consultant (These are a great plus, but are not required if you have equivalent, proven hands-on engineering experience)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly mature, technical leader who is already a deeply experienced, hands-on Okta customer practitioner to drive the technical execution of our Identity Security & Agentic Identity portfolio
- In this role, you will transition from being an external customer to becoming the technical cornerstone of the internal "Okta on Okta" team, acting as Customer Zero
- Reporting directly to the VP of IAM, you will configure, deploy, and battle-test cutting-edge platform features from Alpha through Early Availability (EA)—giving you the unique leverage to directly shape, influence, and improve the core Okta platform before these solutions scale globally
- Why This Role is Different
- If you stay at a traditional customer organization, you can only deploy what we build
- In this role, you get to cross the table, become the elite practitioner of a world-class security platform, get early access to cutting-edge features, and directly influence the future of the platform
- You will collaborate directly with other top-tier engineers across our customer base and partner with the absolute pioneers of the identity industry to shape the tools you've spent your career using
- The Ultimate "Customer Zero" Platform Practitioner (Alpha to EA): Bring your real-world customer deployment perspective directly into our tenant. Act as the lead hands-on architect configuring and deploying Alpha platform capabilities within Okta’s own corporate IAM tenant. You will serve as the bridge to our core platform product teams, providing the vital, practitioner-level feedback that shapes final platform design
- AI Agent & Agentic Identity Security: Lead the hands-on architecture and configuration of how the Okta Platform governs non-human, autonomous AI workloads across O4AA (Okta for AI Agents), defining secure authentication, token exchange, and authorization patterns
- Designing Anti-Session Hijacking Defenses: Build the internal technical deployment blueprints for how Okta DBSSO and Chrome DBSC complement one another, leveraging Okta Identity Engine (OIE) to create an ironclad, layered defense that protects corporate endpoints from token and cookie exfiltration
- Platform-to-Platform Collaboration: Act as a technical peer and trusted advisor to fellow hands-on practitioners at our customer organizations. You will share your direct, real-world tenant deployment experiences, trade-offs, and lessons learned with the engineers actually building and securing their Okta platforms in the wild
- Sharing the Playbook: Contribute to our technical content efforts (such as a deep-dive "how-to" video series, co-hosting internal podcasts, or presenting to fellow practitioners in highly focused, interactive roundtable breakout sessions at Oktane) to share the actual deployment architectures, tenant configurations, and technical playbooks we've built
Our take
Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.
The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. It aims to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.
Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2015
$75m
SERIES F
Jun 2014
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $229.3m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health + Wellness
- Financial Benefits
- Pay + Incentives
- Time Off
- Everyday Living
- Resources
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Todd McKinnon
(Co-Founder & CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(Co-Founder & Vice Chairman)Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.
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