Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Opal Labs, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance infrastructure components that underpin Opal Security’s AI-native identity governance platform
• Own critical systems across the infrastructure stack, ensuring reliability, observability, and resilience under enterprise-scale workloads
• Collaborate directly with product engineers to provide robust tooling, automation, and platform services that accelerate development while enforcing security and compliance standards
• Work alongside leadership and engineering teams to shape product roadmap priorities, architectural decisions, and engineering best practices
• Improve and standardize deployment, monitoring, and incident response processes across the organization to reduce toil and increase system reliability
• Engage directly with enterprise customers—including teams at Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups—to gather feedback on platform performance, troubleshoot issues, and refine solutions based on real-world usage
• Architect and implement cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud providers (AWS/GCP) to support dynamic, multi-tenant SaaS environments
• Optimize infrastructure for cost-efficiency without compromising performance, scalability, or security
• Build and maintain internal tooling and APIs using Golang, GraphQL, and TypeScript to empower product teams with self-service infrastructure capabilities
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 operational stability of production systems and respond to critical incidents with urgency and precision
• Champion infrastructure as code principles, version-controlled deployments, and automated testing across all infrastructure systems
• Proactively identify systemic risks in current infrastructure and propose innovative, scalable solutions that anticipate future growth and evolving security demands
• Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and mentorship efforts to elevate the technical maturity of the broader engineering team
• Balance rapid iteration with rigorous security practices, ensuring that speed of innovation never compromises enterprise-grade access control
• Interpret and translate customer infrastructure pain points into technical requirements for platform enhancements and feature development
• Maintain a strong focus on observability by implementing metrics, logging, and alerting systems that provide deep visibility into system health and user behavior
• Drive adoption of modern infrastructure patterns such as service mesh, zero-trust networking, and ephemeral environments across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a full-time software engineer or equivalent experience building large distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Golang, Postgres, Redis, Terraform, GraphQL, TypeScript, and React
• Proven experience scaling cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work directly with enterprise customers at leading companies like Databricks and Figma
• High ownership and autonomy to shape infrastructure architecture and make high-impact business decisions
• Collaborative, fun team culture with strong emphasis on mutual growth and shared success
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI-native security challenges in the identity governance space

Skills & Technologies

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

Redis

DevOps

Onsite

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About Opal Labs, Inc.

Opal is a health benefits administration platform designed to streamline the process for employers and insurance brokers. It offers a unified platform for managing health insurance plans, dental, vision, and other voluntary benefits. Opal aims to simplify complex benefit administration tasks, providing tools for enrollment, eligibility management, and carrier connections. The platform focuses on transparency and efficiency, helping companies control costs and improve the employee experience by making benefits easier to understand and access. It serves as a central hub for all benefit-related information and operations, reducing administrative burden and enhancing decision-making for HR departments and brokers.

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