As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Opal Security, you will serve as the critical technical bridge between enterprise customers and our core product team. You’ll architect complex deployments, build custom integrations, and solve mission-critical identity challenges for high-scale organizations. This high-impact role blends deep software engineering with strategic field-facing problem-solving.
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Forward Deployed Engineer at Opal Security
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll be the technical bridge for customers like Databricks and Figma, building custom integrations and architecting deployments that secure mission-critical infrastructure. If you love shipping code that solves real-world customer problems and want high autonomy in a fast-scaling team, this hybrid SF role offers a front-row seat to the future of IAM.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
$140k-$250k + Equity
Company
Opal Security
Role overview
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 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.
What you will do
- Embed within enterprise sales and implementation cycles to architect custom deployments and prototype integrations that unblock major customers during critical growth phases.
- Debug complex customer environments, including Terraform configurations and RBAC issues, while writing production-quality code that feeds directly back into the core Opal product.
- Serve as a primary technical advisor to CISOs and security teams, translating high-level field requirements into specific product roadmaps and engineering priorities.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses a strong software engineering background with the ability to write production-ready code across the stack while remaining pragmatic about unblocking customer needs.
- Demonstrates exceptional communication skills, excelling in high-stakes environments where listening, asking deep technical questions, and building customer trust are vital for success.
- Has experience with modern infrastructure tools like Terraform and a passion for rethinking identity governance and access management in the age of AI.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a high-growth Series B team with $59M in funding from premier investors like Greylock and Battery, where over 60% of the team has joined since early 2026.
- Work at the cutting edge of AI-native identity governance, building the essential security infrastructure that organizations like Databricks and Figma use to manage AI agents.
- Benefit from direct mentorship under a world-class leadership team featuring veterans from Meta, Nutanix, and Cisco in a culture of extreme autonomy and product influence.
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