Staff Product Security Engineer, Offensive Security
Staff-level offensive security engineer on Okta's Product Security team in Dublin, running penetration tests and adversarial assessments of Okta's products, cloud infrastructure, and AI/LLM-integrated features, while building offensive automation tooling. Core focus: application/network security, identity protocols (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC), and cloud security (GCP).
- Compensation
- €90K–€123.2K / yr
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Solid understanding of application security principles, common vulnerabilities, backend/middleware testing
- Network penetration testing methodologies
- Experience testing identity and access management systems, including SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OIDC
- Experience assessing security of AI/LLM-integrated systems, including model pipeline supply-chain risks
- Track record of building maintainable, repeatable offensive security tooling beyond ad-hoc scripts
- Thorough familiarity with Linux and macOS, their security features and attack surfaces
- Understanding of cloud security architecture; experience with GCP
- Experience with infrastructure tooling such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, and ArgoCD
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Extensive experience testing identity/IAM platforms, multi-tenant SaaS architectures, or authentication/authorization systems
- Familiarity with Threat Modeling concepts and frameworks
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- Solid understanding of modern cryptographic principles and their application
- Ability to think strategically and develop comprehensive attack scenarios
- Proactive approach to learning about emerging threats and developing new security techniques
Nice to have
- Depth in AWS or Azure
- 5+ years penetration testing web applications, related infrastructure, and networks
- Experience or interest in mentoring and sharing knowledge with team members
Full description
**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.
Staff Product Security Engineer, Offensive Security Team
The Offensive Security Team, part of Product Security, actively assesses the security of Okta's products, services, and infrastructure, and we are seeking a highly technical and driven staff-level engineer to contribute to this effort. This role demands more than running vulnerability scans. Excelling here requires a thorough understanding of offensive security testing and a strong drive to identify and leverage security weaknesses. Above all, the most critical attribute of this role is an innate ability to think and operate as a sophisticated adversary. This skill is key to solving security challenges, drawing on deep technical expertise and creativity.
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.
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.
- Operating Systems: Thorough familiarity with Linux and macOS operating systems, including their security features, command-line tools, and common attack surfaces.
- 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.