Engineering Manager
Core
Engineering leadership role focused on scaling an engineering team, balancing speed with structure, and managing trade-offs in building a scalable identity governance platform.
Role type
Engineering Manager
Builds
Scalable identity governance platform for enterprise AI access management
Domain
Cybersecurity / Identity Management / AI
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Technical platform understanding, team strength assessment, organizational signal translation, culture building
Preferred skills
Coding ability, empathy for engineers, strategic prioritization
Technologies
None explicitly stated
Responsibilities
Balance priorities between structure and speed, manage trade-offs between short-term fixes and durable solutions, protect engineers from excessive requests, contribute to company culture
Seniority
Manager, scaling phase
Rewrite
## About the company
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.
## About the role
Most people seek that 0-1 build experience but the 1-n is a much bigger challenge and we need you to get us to n. We have a team of awesome engineers, we have a product that sells itself, and we are now looking to add to our engineering leadership to make sure we continue to thread the needle between delivering value, scaling up, and growing our engineers.
## Responsibilities
- Balancing priorities
- Finding the right balance between structure and speed
- Knowing when to apply a short-term fix versus something more durable
- Balancing those unique engineers personalities
- Saying yes to speed
- Saying yes to crazy ideas
- Saying yes to team bonding
- Saying yes to coding one day and helping your IC through heartbreak the next day
- Saying no to insulate our engineers from the never-ending requests
## Requirements
- You're technical enough to understand the trade-offs of building a scalable platform
- You're an excellent engineer that quickly gains the confidence and technical trust from those around them
- You know your team's strengths and how to deploy them against the right problems
- You understand that different people need different things to be effective, and you're good at translating organizational noise into useful signal
- You actively contribute to company culture
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