This is a level-agnostic description; scope, autonomy, and leadership expectations scale with level (Senior through Staff).

Responsibilities:

• Research and lead how we can use AI to protect customer tenants — both proactively (hardening posture before an attack) and during active incidents (accelerating detection, triage, and response)
• Research and build protections against novel AI attacks that Auth0 and Auth0's customers can be subjected to — adversarial ML, prompt injection, abuse of agentic protocols (MCP, A2A, UCP, and emerging equivalents), model and data poisoning — as they apply to identity systems and customer tenants
• Partner with the identity security teams to help customers strengthen their own tenant security posture through AI-assisted defenses
• Research the emerging AI threat landscape and translate it into a forward-looking (12–24 month) view of what we need to protect ourselves and our customers from — then architect, recommend, and build the tooling to get there
• Review and harden Auth0's AI security offering, identifying gaps and recommending mitigations before they're exploited
• Partner across a globally distributed product-aligned team of security engineers to turn research into shipped protections for customer tenants
• Establish and execute a long-term engineering and threat research roadmap for Advanced Threat Protection aligned with company-wide business and security goals.
• Own high-impact security architecture designs and decisions across Auth0 and Okta Customer Identity infrastructure to support long-term threat resilience.
• Drive cross-functional security strategies and partner across engineering, product, and enterprise security leadership across Okta to influence platform-wide standards and policies.
• Actively coach, mentor, and level up Senior (P3) engineers and team members, fostering technical excellence, research discipline, and leadership growth.

What this position is not:

• Dedicated application security, code review, or compliance-focused work
• Reactive patch and vulnerability management as a primary function — this role is about getting ahead of threats, not chasing them

Requirements:

• You have hands-on experience with AI/ML security — attacking, defending, or both (e.g., adversarial ML, LLM/prompt-injection attacks, agentic-system or model abuse), and an interest in using AI to build defenses, not just to study attacks
• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, with a proven track record of setting technical vision, driving cross-organizational initiatives, and leading architectural choices in cloud/product security.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring senior-level engineers, defining multi-quarter technical strategy, driving architectural consensus, and influencing cross-organizational security initiatives.
• You have hands-on development experience — Go preferred — sufficient to prototype tooling, build AI-powered defenses, and operationalize your research
• You have working knowledge and hands-on experience with one or more of the following:
• AWS and/or Azure security
• Kubernetes
• You have strong knowledge of OWASP (including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications) and secure coding best practices
• You have a strong foundation in secure software development lifecycle best practices
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn research into clear guidance for engineering and product teams
• You have experience working with a globally distributed and remote team

Bonus points if:

• You have published threat research, CVEs, or conference talks in AI/ML security or identity security
• You have built AI/ML-powered security tooling or defensive automation in a production environment
• You have working knowledge and experience with one or more of the following:
• Adversarial ML, model red-teaming, or AI safety research
• The AI agent / MCP ecosystem and its security implications
• Identity and access management
• Full-stack engineering
• Site reliability engineering
• Vulnerability and threat management
• Governance, risk and compliance

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