About Opal Security:
At Opal, we’re building modern identity governance for the AI era—intelligent access management that empowers enterprises to move fast while staying secure. Our mission is to bring clarity, control, and confidence to complex enterprise environments, helping teams govern access without slowing down innovation.
About the Role:
Identity is having a moment. Every company is deploying agents, spinning up service accounts, and realizing their IAM stack can't keep up. We're building AI-native security that scales with this chaos and companies like Databricks and Figma are betting on us to get it right.
You will build customer solutions across the entire stack. You'll talk directly to security and eng teams at Fortune 500s and startups alike, understand their messy reality, and architect systems that actually solve their problems. You'll own the problem, not just the solution, which means you get to be creative, challenge assumptions, and build things that don't exist yet.
Please note: We've built a team that works exceptionally well together and has fun doing so. We're looking to bring on new teammates who will both add to and grow with what we're building 🙂
Ensure the stability, security, scalability, and performance of Opal Security’s platform
Take ownership of critical components of Opal Security’s Infrastructure
Empower product engineers with the tools and systems they need
Work closely with leadership, our product team, and other engineers in roadmap, architecture, and product discussions
Create and improve engineering best practices and processes
Interact directly with customers on product feedback and issues
Familiarity with our tech stack: Kubernetes, Golang, Postgres, Redis, Terraform, GraphQL, TypeScript, and React
Experience with cloud providers (e.g., AWS / GCP) and scaling cloud infrastructure
Has 4+ years experience as a full-time software engineer or equivalent experience building large distributed systems
Thrives in ambiguous environments with significant ownership and with the opportunity to make decisions that have a huge impact on the business
The best security and engineering teams use Opal to manage access for everyone and everything in the modern enterprise — from employees and contractors to service accounts and AI agents. Recognizing that access moves rapidly, touches everything, and changes constantly, our AI-proofed authorization control plane is built for how identity works (and what identity security needs) today and tomorrow: scale, speed, and intelligence. We are based in New York City and San Francisco, trusted by leading hypergrowth startups and the Fortune 500 alike, and backed by Greylock, Battery Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI), and other top experts from around the world. To learn more, visit www.opal.dev.
