engineering
Posted Oct 30, 2025Forward Deployed Engineer
at Opal
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Lead technical conversations in sales cycles, design solutions that map to customer needs, and remove technical blockers that stand between interest and contract. - Write code for customer-specific integrations, proof-of-concepts, and implementations.
Requirements
- 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.
- We're building AI-native security that scales with this chaos and companies like Databricks and Figma are betting on us to get it right.
- experience in the field to contribute to Opal's product roadmap. - Drive implementations from kickoff to production, troubleshoot issues in customer environments, and ensure technical stakeholders become champions of Opal. - Surface patterns from customer conversations that should influence roadmap, document what you learn, and help engineering prioritize what matters most to revenue.
- You might be debugging a Terraform module on Monday, demoing to a CISO on Tuesday, and building a Slack integration on Wednesday. - You don't need a manager to tell you what to do.
Benefits
- BENEFITS & PERKS - Competitive Salary - Early employee equity - Top-tier Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage - Company and team bonding trips throughout the year fully covered by Opal Security - Daily lunch & coffee allowance - Unlimited PTO - 11 company holidays - One Medical Membership - 401k plan - Pre-Tax Commuter
Additional details
- Our mission is to bring clarity, control, and confidence to complex enterprise environments, helping teams govern access without slowing down innovation.
- Every company is deploying agents, spinning up service accounts, and realizing their IAM stack can't keep up.
- You will be the technical bridge between Opal and our customers.
- You'll embed with prospects and customers during critical moments; sales cycles, implementations, expansions, and build whatever it takes to get them across the finish line.