Senior Identity Platform Engineer (Okta, passkeys and identity verification)

About the Role

Location: New York, Houston, San Francisco or Seattle ·

We’re hiring a Senior Identity Platform Engineer to make Okta Nscale’s single front door: phishing-resistant sign-in only, no usable password, and identity infrastructure managed as code.

As a Senior Identity Platform Engineer, you’ll deliver our passkey rollout, integrate identity verification into onboarding and recovery, and bring Okta configuration under Terraform. You’ll work alongside an existing Staff Okta engineer, who remains the senior technical voice on Okta. This is a hands-on delivery role with day-to-day ownership of Okta Workforce Identity.

What you'll be doing

Okta platform and automation

Own Okta Workforce Identity day to day, including sign-on and authentication policies, device assurance, admin roles, groups, and app integrations using SAML, OIDC and SCIM.

Bring Okta configuration under Terraform, with peer review, testing and staged releases.

Build joiner, mover and leaver automation from Workday through Okta using Okta Workflows and APIs.

Support federation between Okta and Auth0 for staff access to customer platforms.

Passwordless sign-in

Lead the move to passwordless sign-in: roll out device-bound passkeys and Okta FastPass for everyone, use FIDO2 hardware keys where mandated, and enforce policies group by group until nobody can sign in with a password.

Design recovery so that access is restored through identity verification, rather than a help-desk reset or a link to a personal inbox.

Verified onboarding and recovery

Integrate an identity verification service using government ID and a liveness check into onboarding and account recovery.

Ensure the first passkey and every recovery start from a verified identity.

KPIs

Phishing-resistant sign-in enforced for everyone; no password sign-in available

Verified identity before first-passkey enrolment and every account recovery

Okta configuration managed through Terraform, peer review, testing and staged releases

About You

5+ years in identity or platform engineering, including at least 2 years running Okta in production at scale.

Hands-on experience rolling out passwordless authentication using FIDO2/WebAuthn, passkeys, Okta FastPass or similar, including recovery design.

Experience with Okta Workflows, Okta APIs and SCIM, plus Terraform’s Okta provider or similar configuration-as-code tooling.

Experience with HR-driven provisioning, ideally from Workday.

Scripting skills in Python, Go or similar, and experience using Git and code review.

Nice to have

Experience integrating identity verification services such as Persona, Incode, iProov, Nametag or similar.

Experience with Auth0.

Google Workspace administration experience.

management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Staff Security Engineer focused on Privileged Access and Access Automation to build Nscale’s privileged access operating model across enterprise systems, SaaS administration, infrastructure, production environments, source control, data platforms, and emergency access paths.

This role sits inside the identity control plane and is intentionally execution-focused. You’ll work across Identity, Endpoint, Security Data, Network Security, Platform Engineering, IT, and service owners to turn privileged access into a practical engineering mechanism with request, approval, justification, time-bound elevation, session or event evidence, automated revocation, break-glass, and clean audit trails.

This role is critical because standing privilege is one of the highest-risk patterns in a fast-growing infrastructure company. Your work will help make privileged access secure, fast, measurable, and recoverable so engineers can move quickly without relying on manual reviews, tribal knowledge, or permanent admin rights.

What you'll be doing

Privileged Access Workflows

Build privileged access workflows across enterprise SaaS admin roles, production systems, cloud consoles, infrastructure management systems, source control, data platforms, endpoint admin, and emergency access paths

Design access patterns that support request, approval, justification, time-bound elevation, and automated revocation

Define practical controls that reduce reliance on permanent admin rights across high-risk environments

Establish clean audit trails for privileged access activity across critical systems

JIT Access and Governance Controls

Implement JIT access patterns with approval, justification, expiry, revocation, and evidence collection

Create a privileged access baseline that defines who can approve access, what justification is required, how long access lasts, what evidence is captured, and how revocation works

Own exception governance for access paths that cannot yet meet the standard

Drive entitlement cleanup and stale privilege reduction through automation

Break-Glass and Tiering Model

Design break-glass access standards, ownership models, monitoring, and recovery procedures

Test emergency access workflows and validate break-glass readiness

Develop a tiering model for privileged access covering Tier 0 and Tier 1 systems, admin paths, sensitive groups, service-owner roles, and high-risk workflows

Identify the top 10 highest-risk standing privileges and create remediation paths

Telemetry, Detection, and Measurement

Define privileged access telemetry requirements for detection, investigations, audit, compliance, and executive reporting

Partner with Security Data to establish privileged access detections and source-health requirements

Track metrics including standing privilege reduction, JIT adoption, stale admin cleanup, break-glass test success, approval SLA, and access review closure

Build an inventory of top admin paths, owners, approvers, access methods, logging, expiry, and current risk

KPIs

Standing privilege reduction

JIT adoption

Stale admin cleanup

Break-glass test success

About You

7+ years in identity security, privileged access, security engineering, infrastructure security, or related engineering roles

Hands-on experience designing or operating privileged access, JIT, break-glass, access request, approval, or access review workflows

Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, RBAC, SSO, MFA, access governance, admin tiering, and least privilege

Experience automating access workflows, entitlement cleanup, evidence collection, or revocation processes

Strong scripting, workflow automation, API integration, or platform engineering skills

Ability to translate access risk into practical controls that engineering and operations teams will adopt

Ability to work across enterprise systems, production environments, SaaS platforms, IT, infrastructure, and compliance stakeholders

Experience with service accounts, non-human identities, workload identities, API tokens, automation accounts, or secrets governance

Experience securing production access, source control administration, data platforms, cloud administration, or endpoint admin workflows

Experience designing access evidence for audit, customer assurance, or incident response

What we can offer you

At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.

Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months. 🚀

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