Application Security Engineer

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.

Most security engineers spend their careers bolting locks onto doors that were already built. This is not that job.

We're hiring an Application Security Engineer to own security across Opal's product and platform — and yes, own means what it sounds like. You'd be our dedicated security engineer, embedded directly with engineering, writing production code in Go and TypeScript, and building security into the product while it's still being designed. You’ll work closely with a team of engineers that genuinely care about getting this right, and a product that happens to be one of the most security-critical tools in enterprise software.

Oh, and one more thing: Opal is a security company. We sell access control to organizations that take security seriously. That means your work isn't a cost center — it's core to what we do.

This role lives on the Platform team and partners closely with Infrastructure Engineering on cloud security. It is explicitly scoped to application and product security — enterprise IT, compliance, and vendor risk management are handled separately.

Secure Development Lifecycle -

Own the secure SDLC end-to-end: threat modeling, design reviews, code reviews — you set the bar

Run and coordinate app pentests (internal and external) and drive findings to closure

Build and own SAST/DAST/SCA tooling wired into CI/CD so security ships with the code

Triage and remediate vulnerabilities from every angle — bug bounty, internal scans, the works