Staff Product Security Engineer (Offensive Security)

Join Okta's Offensive Security Team as a Staff Product Security Engineer. In this role, you will actively assess the security of Okta's products, services, and infrastructure. You will apply an attacker mindset to identify and exploit complex security gaps, conduct targeted security assessments, and design and maintain offensive automation frameworks. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in application and network security, identity security, AI/LLM security, and cloud security.

Responsibilities

• Contribuer activement à l'évaluation de la sécurité des produits, services et infrastructures d'Okta en appliquant une mentalité d'attaquant pour identifier et exploiter les failles de sécurité complexes.
• Concevoir, construire et maintenir des frameworks d'automatisation offensive qui étendent la couverture de sécurité, y compris des outils de fuzzing et de validation intégrés aux pipelines.
• Agir en tant qu'expert en sécurité au sein des équipes internes et représenter Okta dans les forums internes et externes, en triant périodiquement les tickets de vulnérabilité internes et les soumissions de bug bounty externes.
• Identity Security: Experience testing identity and access management systems, including authentication protocols such as SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OIDC, and their associated attack surfaces
• AI/LLM Security: Experience assessing the security of systems that integrate large language models and AI-driven automation, including supply-chain risks in model pipelines. Ability to develop novel attack techniques against AI-augmented products and evaluate guardrail effectiveness
• Automation & Offensive Tooling: A track record of building maintainable, repeatable Offensive Security tools that accelerate security assessments, automate vulnerability discovery, and integrate with existing workflows

Requirements

• The ideal candidate will possess demonstrable expertise in the following areas:
• Application & Network Security: Solid understanding of application security principles, common vulnerabilities, backend/middleware testing, and network penetration testing methodologies
• Operating Systems: Thorough familiarity with Linux and macOS operating systems, including their security features, command-line tools, and common attack surfaces
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly and concisely articulate vulnerabilities and remediation strategies to technical and non-technical audiences
• Cloud Security: Understanding of cloud security architecture and common attack vectors. Experience with GCP is required, and depth in AWS or Azure is also welcomed
• Infrastructure & DevOps: Experience with infrastructure tooling such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, and ArgoCD, and an understanding of how they shape the operational environment
• Extensive experience testing identity/IAM platforms, multi-tenant SaaS architectures, or authentication/authorization systems
• Demonstrable experience in penetration testing web applications, related infrastructure, and networks (5+ years preferred)
• Effective communication skills for conveying technical security findings to various audiences
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) for building and testing environments
• Familiarity with AI/LLM security risks and experience or strong interest in developing offensive techniques against AI-integrated systems
• Experience or interest in mentoring and sharing knowledge with team members
• Ability to think strategically and develop comprehensive attack scenarios

Familiarity with Threat Modeling concepts and frameworks

• A proactive approach to learning about emerging threats and developing new security techniques
• Track record of building and shipping offensive security tooling beyond ad-hoc scripts
• Solid understanding of modern cryptographic principles and their application
• Experience in operating within and securing cloud environments (GCP required)
• EUR 90,000 - 123,200