Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Technical Architect:
Company Description
Okta is the leading independent identity partner. We enable organizations to securely connect the right people and technologies, providing identity solutions that protect workforce and customer identities across a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
The P0 Threat Research organization operates at the intersection of adversary research, threat hunting, detection engineering, data science, and product innovation. Our mission is to understand modern adversaries better than anyone else and make that knowledge actionable for our customers and products.
Position Description
Architect, Threat Research will help define and drive the technical vision for Okta's threat research efforts. This role is focused on understanding how modern adversaries operate, developing new methodologies for discovering and analyzing attacker behavior, and translating that research into actionable outcomes for our customers and products.
Initial areas of emphasis include identity, cloud, SaaS, AI, and other emerging technologies, but success in this role is rooted in deep threat research expertise and the ability to rapidly develop expertise in new technologies and attack surfaces.
The Architect will serve as a senior technical leader within the Threat Research organization. This individual will work closely with threat researchers, threat hunters, detection engineers, data scientists, product teams, engineering teams, and other senior technical leaders across Okta.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. The Architect is expected to establish research direction and methodology while continuing to personally perform research, analyze telemetry and artifacts, develop hypotheses, experiment with new approaches, and build tooling or prototypes when needed.
The ideal candidate is a researcher and technologist at heart who is comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces, following evidence wherever it leads, and turning incomplete or unfamiliar data into meaningful insights about adversary behavior.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical direction for major threat research initiatives.
- Identify emerging attack surfaces, adversary behaviors, and areas where additional research can materially improve Okta's understanding of the threat landscape.
- Lead complex and open-ended research efforts into novel adversary behaviors, attack techniques, campaigns, and security risks.
- Develop research hypotheses and identify the telemetry, artifacts, intelligence, and other inputs necessary to investigate them.
- Develop new research methodologies, analytical approaches, prototypes, and tooling that improve the organization's ability to identify and understand threats.
- Analyze security telemetry and technical artifacts to identify attacker behaviors, infrastructure, techniques, trends, and previously unknown activity.
- Translate threat research into actionable outcomes, including detections, threat hunts, intelligence, product capabilities, tooling, research publications, and customer protections.
- Establish and improve research methodologies, technical standards, and processes that enable the Threat Rese
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