Staff Software Engineer - Advanced Threat Protection
Core
Research and build AI-powered defenses against emerging threats (adversarial ML, prompt injection, agentic protocols) for identity systems and customer tenants.
Role type
Staff Security Engineer (AI/ML Security)
Builds
AI-assisted threat detection, triage, and response tooling for Auth0 and Okta Customer Identity
Domain
Cybersecurity, AI/ML Security, Identity and Access Management
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AI/ML security (adversarial ML, prompt injection, agentic protocols), Go, cloud security (AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, secure SDLC, OWASP LLM Top 10
Preferred skills
Published threat research/CVEs, production AI security tooling, AI agent/MCP ecosystem, IAM, SRE, vulnerability management
Technologies
Go, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Research and lead AI usage for proactive tenant hardening and active incident response; Build protections against novel AI attacks (adversarial ML, prompt injection, model poisoning); Architect and build forward-looking threat protection tooling; Mentor Senior engineers and drive cross-organizational security strategy
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
