Engineering Leader

Opal
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Mentorship","Problem-solving","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Lead and scale a software engineering team focused on building a scalable identity governance platform. Drive engineering excellence, balance priorities, and foster a high-performance culture while aligning with product goals and company strategy. Collaborate across functions to deliver value quickly without compromising quality, and grow engineers through mentorship and effective leadership.

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Opal
Opal
11 months ago

Engineering Leader

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Job Summary

Lead and scale a software engineering team focused on building a scalable identity governance platform. Drive engineering excellence, balance priorities, and foster a high-performance culture while aligning with product goals and company strategy. Collaborate across functions to deliver value quickly without compromising quality, and grow engineers through mentorship and effective leadership.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Leading and mentoring a team of engineers to deliver a scalable platform and high-impact projects.
  • •Balance priorities and manage trade-offs to maintain velocity while ensuring code quality and system reliability.
  • •Shield engineers from excessive requests while enabling rapid iteration and experimentation.
  • •Foster an inclusive team culture, drive cross-functional collaboration, and translate organizational noise into actionable signals.
  • •Contribute to the company’s technical strategy and help scale the engineering organization as the company grows.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: 250,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Must have a proven track record leading engineering teams to deliver scalable platforms, with strong technical credibility and leadership presence.
  • •Ability to balance priorities and balance structure with speed, knowing when to apply short-term fixes versus durable solutions.
  • •Excellent people leadership skills, with the ability to earn technical trust and align team strengths with business problems.
  • •Comfort translating organizational noise into useful signal and driving cross-functional collaboration across product, design, and other teams.
  • •Strong focus on engineering culture, mentorship, and developing engineers to scale with the organization.
Experience:SecurityIdentity governance
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentorshipProblem-solvingCross-functional collaboration

Company Brief

Opal
Opal Security provides a data‑centric identity and access management platform that unifies visibility, intelligence, and workflows to enforce least‑privilege and remediate identity risk across human and machine identities for modern enterprises.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2020
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