Staff Security Engineer, Okta
Identity Defense
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
Job no longer available
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- 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 actors
- 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 lproducts: 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)
- Strong knowledge of a scripting language such as Python
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 Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) organization is building a new 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
- We are seeking builders who are excited about establishing a new team and helping shape Okta’s customer focused security operations
- Identify and respond to attacks targeting customers on the Okta platform through detailed analysis of Okta’s product telemetry
- Develop dashboards and detection logic to identify known patterns of attack that may succeed should customer’s not implement best practice security controls
- Automate and orchestrate tasks to enable efficient validation and notification of security-relevant events to our customers
- 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
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Love our customers
- Never stop innovating
- Act with integrity
- Be transparent
- Empower our people
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Founders
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.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Manager, Recruiting EMEA and promoted to Director, Recruiting EMEA after 3 years. Promoted again to Senior Director, Recruiting EMEA after another 3 years.
Diversity & Inclusion at Okta
- Workforce: We believe in recruiting diverse talent to create balanced teams
- Workplace: We support and empower employees to be authentic and grow through open conversations and education
- Marketplace: We go to market and sell to diverse audiences
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