Opal Security
AI
ApplicationSecurityEngineer
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“Application Security Engineer at Opal Security. Skills: Application Security, Software Security Engineering, Secure Development Lifecycle, Cloud Security, Incident Response. Own security across Opal's product and platform. Write production code in Go and TypeScript”
What You'll Achieve.
Bring clarity, control, and confidence to complex enterprise environments; Help teams govern access without slowing down innovation; Security ships with the code; Close vuln classes for good; Make the org smarter
Industry & Context.
Find the root cause, fix it
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years in application security or software security engineering, Actually write production code, Know auth cold: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, session management, token lifecycle, Comfortable in AWS and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker)
Nice to Have
Familiarity with our stack: Go, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, Led complex, cross-functional security initiatives from kickoff to completion, Run or participated in external pentests and seen findings through remediation, Thrive on ownership and ambiguity
What You'll Do.
Own security across Opal's product and platform
Write production code in Go and TypeScript
Build security into the product
Own the secure SDLC end-to-end
Set the security bar for threat modeling
Run and coordinate app pentests
Drive findings to closure
Build and own SAST/DAST/SCA tooling wired into CI/CD
Triage and remediate vulnerabilities
Build and maintain security-critical services
Own the Auth0 ↔ Opal integration
Ship production Go and TypeScript to harden APIs
enforce least-privilege
and close vuln classes
Create shared libraries
Be first on the scene for security incidents
fix security incidents
Partner with Infra on cloud hardening
Level up detection and response
Write detection rules
Improve logging and alerting
Mentor engineers on secure coding
and security architecture
Help set the security roadmap
Be the security teammate engineers want to work with
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Embedded directly with engineering; Work closely with a team of engineers; Partners closely with Infrastructure Engineering; Collaborator, not a bottleneck; Led complex, cross-functional security initiatives
Process & Methodology
Led complex, cross-functional security initiatives from kickoff to completion
Full Job Description
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 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. What You’ll Do: 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 Software Security Engineering - - Build and maintain the security-critical stuff: encryption services, authz enforcement, authn flows - Own the Auth0 ↔ Opal integra
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