**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 Security Infrastructure Engineer, Red Team
Within the Product Security team, our Red Team delivers robust security assurance for Okta's products, services, and infrastructure. You will be the team's dedicated infrastructure and tooling engineer, the first person in this role for a small team of operators. You will work alongside operators but not report through an operator chain; you'll collaborate as a peer focused on a different discipline.
We seek a Staff Security Infrastructure Engineer to own the engineering backbone that enables our operations. This is not a traditional operator role but a dedicated infrastructure, tooling, and automation engineering position embedded within the Red Team. You will design, build, maintain, and continuously improve the platforms, infrastructure, and custom tooling that our operators depend on to execute engagements.
Your work directly enables the team to operate at a higher maturity level: faster infrastructure deployment, more resilient and OPSEC-aware architecture, automated workflows, and reliable custom tooling, freeing operators to focus on the mission. Your role will also extend to cultivating stakeholder collaboration and elevating our company’s security posture through strategic engagement and proactive measures. As the team matures, this role can evolve toward platform leadership, custom capability development, or a hybrid operator/engineer path.
What You Will Do
- Infrastructure Engineering & Automation:
- Tooling Development & Maintenance:
- Security & OPSEC:
What You Bring
Required
- 8+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or a similar role with significant automation responsibilities
- Strong familiarity with Terraform (or equivalent IaC tooling) for multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning and management
- Experience operating in cloud-native, SaaS, or identity-focused environments
- Strong proficiency with configuration management tools (Ansible, or equivalent)
- Proficiency in at least one systems programming or scripting language (Python, Go, Bash) with disciplined development practices (version control, code review, testing, documentation)
- Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP/S, TCP/IP, proxying, TLS), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Understanding of OPSEC principles as they apply to offensive infrastructure — you know why redirector chains, domain categorization, traffic separation, and certificate management matter.
Strongly Preferred
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) as applicable to tooling and lab environments
- Familiarity with C2 frameworks (Cobalt Strike, Mythic, Sliver, or similar) from an infrastructure and deployment perspective — you don't need to operate them, but you need to understand what operators need from the infrastructure
- Familiarity with detection evasion concepts as they relate to infrastructure (e.g., traffic shaping, hosting provider reputation, certificate transparency)
Nice to Have
- Working knowledge of Blue Team operations and related technologies
- Experience with security tool development (implant development, payload engineering, evasion tooling) — this role can grow in that direction
- Familiarity with Red Team maturity models and how infrastructure/tooling capabilities map to organizational maturity
Note: This is not an operator role. You will not be the person running hands-on-keyboard engagements as your primary function. While you may participate in operations to understand requirements or provide support, your core mission is ensuring the team's infrastructure, workflows, tooling, and automation are reliable, repeatable, and mature. You are the engineering foundation the operators build on.
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Below is the annual salary range for candidates located in Canada. Your actual salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, RRSP with a match, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program, please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/can.
The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in Canada is between:
$141,000—$193,600 CAD
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