Security Engineer

Opal is building the next generation of access management. We’ve all felt the pain of not getting the access we need to do our job. At Opal, we’re building a central hub for authorization to make access management automated, intelligent, and easy to use. We are taking an age old problem in enterprise software and making it simple. Our product prioritizes consumer grade simplicity with enterprise scale, reliability, and security. Our customers love our product, and we’re humbled to work with amazing companies like ScaleAI, Databricks, and Figma.

You’ll be joining an experienced team of engineers with direct experience building and scaling teams through massive growth at companies like Slack, Meta, 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

• Work across security disciplines to drive down risk for the company.

• Fix security problems across corp and prod

• Spearhead end-to-end security initiatives, including implementing best practices and be the go to security expert

• Example projects:

  • Ensure the product is designed with security in mind from the beginning of the development lifecycle

  • Investigate potential security problems

  • Harden our Google Suite, AWS, or Chrome usage

  • Design, implement and maintain the systems that ensure enterprise grade security

  • Develop and improve reliability related processes such as incident response, RCAs, and remediation

  • Drive prioritization and scoping of our technical roadmap as it relates to security

  • Mentor other engineers on security best practices

Our ideal candidate

• 5+ years of experience in a software security role

• Deep expertise in at least one security discipline such as product security, infrastructure security, corporate security, or detection and response

• Enthusiasm to drive down risk across security disciplines

• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Familiarity with our tech stack: Kubernetes, Golang, Postgres, Redis, GraphQL, TypeScript, and React

• Experience in early stage startups

• Track record of leading complex technical initiatives to completion (6+ month project time frame, involving multiple engineers and stakeholders)

• Ability to push through uncertainty and work with a variety of functions and teams

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Salary

• Early employee equity

• Top-tier Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage

• Company and team bonding trips throughout the year fully covered by Opal Security

• Daily lunch & coffee allowance

• Unlimited PTO

• 11 company holidays

• One Medical Membership

• 401k plan

• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits

This role is based in either New York City or San Francisco.