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