Vice President of Engineering

Doing business today requires trusting a rapidly expanding set of identities to access, use, and share privileged data in the cloud. This distributed web of data, relationships, and access points is difficult to track, let alone secure. To limit the risk of breach and blast radius, large organizations need to manage who has access to what, what they can do with that access, and when they can take action. That’s where Opal Security comes in — our identity security platform enables scalable and efficient implementation of least-privilege access. Customers like Figma, ScaleAI, and Databricks say it is the best tool to administer a least privileged access model across all of their data - SaaS, Cloud and on-prem.

As our Engineering Leader, you’ll be joining an experienced team of engineers with direct experience building through massive growth at companies like Abnormal, Meta, CashApp, and Samsara. On the back of this experience and our success to date, we’ve raised over $32M from leading investors including Greylock and Battery Ventures. Join us as we build the next-generation identity security platform!

Your responsibilities

• Lead the engineering function at Opal.

• Build trust with your team and cross-functional partners.

• Create a culture of technical excellence, execution, and leadership.

• Attract a diverse group of top talent. Mentor, coach, grow and support them.

• Partner with product management to create focused, meaningful priorities that are connected to the company’s success. React effectively to changes.

• Create an execution strategy that ensures engineering consistently delivers reliable, secure, products in a way that drives customer relationships forward.

• Be conversant in systems design and architecture, with comfort reasoning about trade-offs, defending technical decisions, and owning technical direction for the company.

• Interact directly with customers. Keep engineering closely aligned with customer sentiment and feedback.

Our ideal candidate

• Successfully led a team of at least 50 engineers, with a history of developing IC’s and managers.

• Experience in a high-growth environment, preferably a startup.

• Track record of building premium end-user experiences in collaboration with product and design.

• A master of their craft. Can dive deep into the details of the tech stack and codebase.

• Comfortable interfacing with executives and customers as the Head of Engineering.

• Strategic and business-minded. Works tirelessly to point engineering’s effort towards maximum impact within the context of our business and GTM motion.