Software Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

Opal is building the next generation of access management. We've all felt the pain of not getting the access we need to do our job. At Opal, we’re building a central hub for authorization to make access management automated, intelligent, and easy to use. We are taking an age old problem in enterprise software and making it simple. Our product prioritizes consumer grade simplicity with enterprise scale, reliability, and security. Our customers love our product, and we’re humbled to work with amazing companies like ScaleAI, Databricks, and Figma.

You'll be joining an experienced team of engineers with direct experience building and scaling teams through massive growth at companies like Slack, Meta, and Samsara. On the back of this experience and our success to date, we’ve raised over $32M from leading investors including Greylock and Battery Ventures. Join us as we build the next generation identity security platform!

Your responsibilities

• Build trust with your team and cross functional partners

• Create a culture of technical excellence, execution and leadership within your team

• Attract a diverse array of top talent. Mentor, coach, grow and support them

• Partner with product management to create focused, meaningful priorities that are clearly connected to the company’s success. React effectively to changes

• Create an execution strategy that ensures your team consistently delivers reliable, secure, products in a way that makes our customers happy

• Be conversant in systems design & architecture, can reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions / technical direction for your team 

• Interact directly with customers. Keep the team closely aligned with customer sentiment and feedback

Our ideal candidate

• Leads and delivers complex, company impacting projects with your cross functional partners by helping their teams work together as a single, combined team

• Has the flexibility and experience to weigh trade offs and make decisions in a fast moving environment

• Understands many of the metrics involved in software development and leverages that information to understand and improve the team’s execution

• Writes code occasionally to empathize with their developer’s daily experience and stay in touch with the health of the codebase

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 Benefits

This role is based in New York City. 

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds rarely apply unless they meet all the job criteria. We aren’t looking for someone who ticks every single box on a page; we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. If you think you’d be a great fit, then please get in touch to tell us about yourself. Opal is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.