Staff Security Engineer, Okta

Identity Defense Operations

$161-241k

Salary applicable to California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington only and may vary for other locations.+ Bonus

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

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Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Be an early applicant

$161-241k

Salary applicable to California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington only and may vary for other locations.+ Bonus

Senior and Expert level

Chicago

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityInternal toolsSaaSIdentity

Company mission

To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We are seeking builders who are excited about establishing a new team and helping shape Okta’s customer focused security operations
You’re a team player with a thirst for knowledge
You may or may not currently be in a security role, but you are passionate about defending people’s online identities from malicious actor
You’re curious about systems and how they interact, knowing that to properly defend a system you must first understand how it works
You enjoy automating tasks and if you can’t find a tool for the job you create one. You’re calm under pressure and have a good internal compass for taking calculated risks
Your experience probably includes:
Learning the ins and outs of new SaaS products: you will be required to quickly become proficient in current and future Okta offerings
Leading, or contributing to, technology focused teams large or small
Working on identity and access management, security or data analytics projects
Participating or leading complex time-sensitive investigations involving customer account compromise, service abuse, inauthentic behavior or other types of threats an identity service provider would be responsible for helping customers address
Identifying and solving problems related to complex technology stacks and following through to ensure long term solutions are effectively deployed
Technologies and protocols to support identity federation and robust access control models (e.g., SAML 2.0, XACML, WS-Federation, WS-Trust, OAuth, OpenID)

What the job involves

Information Security is a top business imperative at Okta. In addition to driving security in our Corporate environment and Okta service, the Security team is deeply entrenched in the Okta business
As such, we contribute to product roadmaps, branding, research and other strategic aspects of our operations
We work across multiple functions, business partners and the research community. We are an engineering-focused team that seeks to stay on the cutting edge of security technology and the threat landscape
Okta’s Identity Defense Operations (IDO) organization is expanding our team dedicated to identifying attacks against our customers, developing best practices for security configurations to protect against attack, and working closely with Okta’s product teams to ensure additional security controls are implemented in order to better protect our customers
Working in close collaboration with other parts of the organization, this team will have the opportunity to improve the security posture of millions of users
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

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. They aim 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

Top investors

19% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Trustpilot (1.5)

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

(CEO)

VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.

Frederic Kerrest

(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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