Opal Security

Technology

ApplicationSecurityEngineer

$155–210k ~AI est. San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Application Security Engineer at Opal Security. Skills: Application security, Product security, Cloud security, Identity governance. Own secure SDLC end-to-end. Run app pentests”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ years in application security, Write production code, Know auth cold, Comfortable in AWS, Comfortable in containerized environments

Nice to Have

Familiarity with Go, Familiarity with TypeScript, Familiarity with React, Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Familiarity with Redis, Familiarity with GraphQL, Led complex security initiatives, Run external pentests, Thrive on ownership and ambiguity

What You'll Do.

Own secure SDLC end-to-end

Coordinate app pentests

Drive findings to closure

Build SAST/DAST/SCA tooling

Own SAST/DAST/SCA tooling

Triage vulnerabilities

Remediate vulnerabilities

Build security-critical stuff

Maintain security-critical stuff

Own Auth0 integration

Ship production TypeScript

Enforce least-privilege

Create shared libraries

Investigate security incidents

Contain security incidents

Fix security incidents

Partner on cloud hardening

Write detection rules

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Embedded with engineering; Partner with Infra; Work with engineers; Cross-functional initiatives

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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