Engineering Manager
full-time•San Francisco
About this role
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 Role:
Most people seek that 0-1 build experience but the 1-n is a much bigger challenge and we need you to get us to n. We have a team of awesome engineers, we have a product that sells itself, and we are now looking to add to our engineering leadership to make sure we continue to thread the needle between delivering value, scaling up, and growing our engineers.
What You’ll Do:
This role is all about balancing: balancing priorities, finding the right balance between structure and speed, knowing when to apply a short-term fix versus something more durable, and balancing those unique engineers personalities
This role is all about saying yes: yes to speed, yes to crazy ideas, yes to team bonding, yes to coding one day and helping your IC through heartbreak the next day
This role is also all about saying no: our engineers need to be (appropriately) insulated from the never-ending requests
You Might Be a Fit If You:
You're technical enough to understand the trade-offs of building a scalable platform
You’re an excellent engineer that quickly gains the confidence and technical trust from those around them
You know your team's strengths and how to deploy them against the right problems
You understand that different people need different things to be effective, and you're good at translating organizational noise into useful signal
You actively contribute to company culture
What you'll do
- The Engineering Manager will balance priorities and ensure the team delivers value while scaling up. They will also support engineers by providing guidance and shielding them from excessive requests.
About Opal Security
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.
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What does a Engineering Manager do at Opal Security?
As a Engineering Manager at Opal Security, you will: the Engineering Manager will balance priorities and ensure the team delivers value while scaling up. They will also support engineers by providing guidance and shielding them from excessive requests..
Is the Engineering Manager position at Opal Security remote?
The Engineering Manager position at Opal Security is based in San Francisco, United States. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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