About the role
What we're looking for:
We need a software engineer with 4+ years of experience who works on infrastructure — not a traditional SRE or DevOps engineer, but a strong software engineer with curiosity and experience in infrastructure systems. You should have solid coding fundamentals (you'll go through the same coding screen as product engineers), familiarity with cloud infrastructure at scale, and a track record of building reliable, performant systems. Ideal candidates started at a top-tier tech company (Meta, Google, etc.), spent 3-5 years there, then moved to a startup environment.
What you'll do:
- Ensure the stability, security, scalability, and performance of Opal Security's platform serving Fortune 500 enterprises
- Take ownership of critical infrastructure components and drive architectural decisions with high autonomy
- Empower product engineers with the tools, systems, and best practices they need to ship quickly
- Work closely with leadership, the product team, and other engineers on roadmap, architecture, and product discussions
- Interact directly with enterprise customers on product feedback and infrastructure-related issues
- Create and improve engineering best practices and processes across the platform team
About the team:
You'll join Opal's platform team — a senior, high-caliber group of engineers from companies like Meta and Google, as well as successful startups. The team reports to the CTO and operates with significant ownership and autonomy. Opal is lean by design, which means each person has outsized impact. We're looking for people who are committed to the startup grind, see the potential and upside, and want to be part of building something meaningful in identity security.
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.
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.
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$160,000 - $250,000
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
4+ years
Funding
Total raised
$54
Last stage
Growth
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.