About the role
About Opal Security: The best security and engineering teams use Opal Security, the AI-native access platform, for real-time visibility, policy-as-code, and control over every identity, from employees to service accounts to AI agents. Companies like Databricks, Notion, CoreWeave, and Superhuman rely on Opal. Based in San Francisco, we've raised $59M from Greylock, Battery Ventures, and SVCI, and were named to Notable Capital's Rising in Cyber 2026 list by 150 leading CISOs. Our leadership brings deep security pedigree: CEO Howard Ting (previously CEO of Cyberhaven, CMO at Nutanix), CPO Sameer Mehta (Veza, Citrix), and CTO Alex Pien (Meta), among others who've built category-defining products.
The Role We're hiring a Security Manager to own Opal's internal security program. This person will be responsible for our security operations, compliance posture, vendor risk, incident response, and security tooling. This is a hands-on, security-first role for someone who can operate independently, work well with external partners, and keep a fast-moving startup secure without slowing it down. You'll manage our security vendor and partner closely with engineering, operations, and leadership. You'll also oversee IT operations through our managed service provider (MSP), making sure onboarding/offboarding, devices, access, and office infrastructure meet our security and compliance needs. This is not primarily an AppSec role. Product security and AppSec will remain closely partnered with Engineering, though this person will help coordinate security intake, bug bounty operations, vulnerability management, and remediation tracking. We are building Opal together, in person. This role is 3+ days in office in downtown San Francisco.
What You'll Own Security Operations Own Opal's internal security program across people, systems, devices, vendors, and office environments Manage security tooling for endpoint protection, SSO, MFA, access reviews, logging, monitoring, and alerting Lead security incident response, including triage, investigation, remediation, communications, and follow-up Run internal access reviews and improve least-privilege practices across company systems Manage physical and digital access controls for the office and internal tools Compliance & Risk Drive SOC 2 compliance work, including control ownership, evidence collection, audit readiness, and auditor coordination Maintain security policies, procedures, exceptions, control documentation, and audit evidence Track security risks and drive practical remediation based on business impact Help turn security and compliance