# Forward Deployed Engineer at Opal Security

- Company: Opal Security
- What the company does: Opal is the access control plane for every identity. Our AI understands the CISO. Backed by Battery and Greylock.
- Company website: https://opal.dev/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $140K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-10-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/opal/464ec02f-eb3d-4714-9d78-f82049183a84
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/opal-security-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Identity is having a moment. Every company is deploying agents, spinning up service accounts, and realizing their IAM stack can't keep up. 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.

## What they're looking for

- You genuinely enjoy being in rooms (virtual or physical) with customers. You ask good questions, listen well, and can read the room to know when to go deep vs. stay high-level
- You can write production-quality code across the stack, but you also know when duct tape is the right answer. You optimize for unblocking the customer, not architectural purity
- No two weeks look the same. 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. You hear a customer problem, figure out what would solve it, and make it happen
- You can translate "we need to prove ROI to the board" into technical requirements, and explain "we need to refactor our RBAC engine" in terms a VP of Sales understands

Tags: Engineering