Opal Security - Software Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Full-time Compensation: $160,000–$250,000 + equity

About the Company

Our client is a venture-backed, growth-stage cybersecurity company building modern identity and access governance for large organizations, including Fortune 500 enterprises and well-known high-growth startups. Their platform helps security and engineering teams manage access across people, service accounts, and automated agents at scale. It is a lean, senior team where engineers own meaningful parts of the product and talk directly with customers.

Founded 2020 · ~60 people · Industry: Cybersecurity, Enterprise SaaS

The Role

You will own the reliability, security, scalability, and performance of a platform serving major enterprise customers, while building the tools and systems that let product engineers ship quickly. This is a high-ownership infrastructure role on a small, high-caliber engineering team.

What you'll be doing

• Own critical infrastructure components and drive architecture decisions with high autonomy.
• Keep the platform stable, secure, scalable, and performant under enterprise-scale traffic.
• Build the internal tools, systems, and best practices that product engineers depend on.
• Partner with leadership, product, and engineering on roadmap and architecture.
• Work directly with enterprise customers on infrastructure feedback and issues.

Tech stack: Golang, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, TypeScript, React, AWS, GCP

Requirements

• 4+ years as a software engineer building distributed systems.
• A software engineer who works on infrastructure, writing services and systems rather than only operating or maintaining infrastructure.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with the coding ability to pass a rigorous algorithmic coding screen held to the same bar as product engineers.
• Demonstrated systems design skill for large distributed systems.
• Backend development in Golang or a comparable systems language.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP): deploying, scaling, and monitoring at production scale.
• Experience building or scaling systems for enterprise-grade traffic or multi-tenant SaaS.
• Working familiarity with infrastructure tooling such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and Kafka (baseline awareness, not deep specialization).

Nice to Haves

• Experience building internal developer platforms or tooling that other engineers rely on.

Why Join

• High-impact, high-ownership infrastructure role on a lean, senior engineering team.
• Direct exposure to enterprise customers, with little bureaucracy between you and the problem.
• Strong compensation plus meaningful equity at a growth-stage company with real momentum.
• Work on hard infrastructure problems in a category that is expanding quickly.

Details

• Location | San Francisco, CA
• Work policy | Hybrid, roughly 3 days per week in office
• Compensation | $160,000–$250,000 + equity
• Visa sponsorship | Available on a case-by-case basis, including transfers
• Employment type | Full-time