--- title: 'Engineering Manager at Oso' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-oso-new-york-p3zwh6rs6vp5' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # Engineering Manager at Oso - **Company:** Oso - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2025-03-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/oso/b0f01d7a-a3b9-4525-ad8b-d5a4a1024fcf ## Job description Old problem, new $25B+ market Companies like AWS, Stripe, and Twilio have shown that if a technology isn't core to your value proposition, you should offload it. Still, every engineering team builds and rebuilds one piece: authorization, how you control who has access to what in your app. We intend to change that. We see a world where developers never roll their own authorization again, and instead say, "Just use Oso" – the same way you might say, "Oh, you should just use Postgres for that." In doing so, we're creating the $25B+ authorization market. Why Oso? We have the lead – in traction, capital, and team. - Traction: Oso is used by thousands of companies from startups to the Fortune 500, like Wayfair, ProductBoard, Vanta, Brex, Verizon, ZoomInfo, and Duolingo. - Capital: We're backed by the world’s best investors, including Sequoia, Felicis, and a standout group of infrastructure founders and operators: Olivier Pomel (Founder, Datadog), Dev Ittycheria (CEO, MongoDB), Armon Dadgar (Founder, HashiCorp), Edith Harbaugh (Founder, LaunchDarkly), Guy Podjarny (Founder, Snyk), Paul Copplestone (Founder, Supabase), Christina Cacioppo (Founder, Vanta), and Calvin French-Owen (Founder, Segment). - Team: We've spent 5+ years going deep on the domain. We've met with thousands of engineering teams and know more about this problem than anyone. And we have two of the best developer go-to-market leaders on earth who have done it before at MongoDB and Snyk. Why now? We're at an inflection point. What it takes to get from where we are today to a world where developers say “Just use Oso” is going to be different. And we see that. The opportunity is for you to join at this inflection point, in a role that’s bigger and different than usual. ## What you'll do You have the opportunity to make a career-defining impact while still having the fundamentals of the business de-risked (e.g., market, funding, traction). - Take the foundation that we have, and work with our cofounder/CTO to build out the vision. This includes not just how things work under the hood. Getting developer experience right, for instance, is a key ingredient to winning the market, and you will help us get this right too. - Recruit the absolute best engineers – engineers who want to lean into product and talk to users, who can build a highly technical and complex solution, and who are ready to do whatever it takes. We're still early enough that you will help shape the culture. - Lead the engineering team by setting ambitious goals and inspiring the team to deliver. - Get your hands dirty and jump in on whatever else it takes to build the company. - Work with the founder/CEO and other execs (e.g. marketing, sales) to make Oso wildly successful. ## Who you are - You're ambitious. You want to win big. You can't stand to be around anything but execution at the highest level. You have an inner motor to move fast. - You're an owner. You are accountable to results over the process. You see yourself not just as a leader of the engineering team, but also as a leader of the company. - You're resilient. Building a startup is not for the faint of heart. You see the challenges as not just normal, but actually desirable. - You want to grow, and help others grow. You self-reflect often. You give feedback, and you seek it out. - You prioritize the customer above all else. You want to understand our users' world and prioritize solving their authorization problems above everything else. ...and you inspire the same in those around you. ## Requirements - You have thrived working in a startup - Experience leading and growing an engineering team in a high-growth company - Experience as a programmer and/or engineering leader building complex systems at varying levels of the stack ## Benefits In addition to cash compensation, Oso offers a Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more: - Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage - Mental healthcare to all employees and anyone in their family through [Spring Health](https://www.springhealth.com/) - Unlimited access to financial advisors through [Northstar](https://www.northstarmoney.com/) - Equity Package - Unlimited paid time off (PTO) - Paid parental leave - Flexible work options - One Medical Membership - Quarterly hackathons... and prizes! - Free team lunches every month The starting salary for this role is between $195,000-$240,000/year plus equity. Your exact offer will vary based on a number of factors including experience level, skillset, market location, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. Oso is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status. ## About Oso ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Oso provides visibility and controls to secure AI agents, applying deep authorization expertise to the era of autonomous AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (raised $25M in funding; Series not specified) - **Headquarters**: New York City, United States - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Graham Neray and Nick Kucharski ## Core Business - Primary industry: AI security and authorization - Target customers: B2B enterprise – engineering, security, and compliance teams managing AI agent adoption - Mission: "Agents are here. Oso makes them safe." – focuses on enabling safe, visible, and controlled deployment of AI agents. ## Products & Services - **Oso for Agents**: SaaS platform to discover all AI agents running inside an organization, monitor prompts/tool calls/responses, detect anomalies (rule violations, high-velocity behavior, PII leakage, API key exposure), enforce custom policies (e.g., "block unknown MCP servers," "deny all delete operations"), and produce complete audit logs for compliance. - **Oso for Apps (legacy product)**: Authorization service for human-scale applications – provides role-based, relationship-based, and attribute-based access control (RBAC/ReBAC/ABAC) using the Polar policy DSL. Still maintained and used by engineering teams. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: $25M total funding raised - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Harpoon, SV Angel, Company Ventures, Highland Capital; individual investors include Dev Ittycheria (MongoDB CEO), Calvin French-Owen (Segment founder), Charity Majors (Honeycomb founder), Edith Harbaugh (LaunchDarkly founder), Olivier Pomel (Datadog CEO), Armon Dadgar (HashiCorp CTO), Christina Cacioppo (Vanta CEO), Paul Copplestone (Supabase CEO), and others. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 36 total employees (20 in product/tech). Actively hiring for multiple roles (Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Head of Sales, Developer Experience Engineer, etc.). Recent pivot to AI agent security signals a fast-growing new market. ## Competitive Advantages - **Authorization expertise**: Seven years building permissions for humans gave deep understanding of why those models fail for AI agents. - **Performance**: Built in Rust; delivers <10ms p90 latency, runs in 30+ availability zones for 99.99% uptime, scales horizontally. - **Policy DSL (Polar)**: Flexible, expressive language supporting any authorization model (RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC). - **Comprehensive detection**: Detects rule violations, high-velocity behavior, PII leakage, and exposed API keys out-of-the-box. - **Agents Gone Rogue registry**: Curated library of real-world agent failures and attack patterns used to inform defenses. ## Strategic Focus - Establish Oso as the standard security and governance platform for AI agents across the enterprise. - Expand visibility and control as agent adoption spreads from engineering to product, finance, and sales. - Continue to innovate on detection patterns and policy enforcement to address emerging agent risks. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Early-stage startup with high ownership, resilience, and ambition expectations (labeled "Oso Expectations"). Emphasis on long-term impact over short-term performance. - **Work environment**: Headquarters in NYC's NoMad neighborhood with a beautiful office. Remote-friendly (expects roughly half the team remote, half in NYC in the long term). Hybrid model with regular in-person collaboration days. - **Tech stack**: Core built in Rust; frontend uses React and TypeScript; infrastructure on AWS with Pulumi; also uses SQLite. - **Benefits**: Competitive health/dental/vision, mental healthcare via Spring Health, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, equity, free team lunches, quarterly hackathons, One Medical concierge, financial advisors through Northstar. - **Impact**: Tight loop from work to customer – every engineer has a meaningful role in shaping product and culture. ## Sources 1. [osohq.com](https://www.osohq.com/) 2. [osohq.com/company/jobs](https://www.osohq.com/company/jobs) 3. [osohq.com/company/about-us](https://www.osohq.com/company/about-us) 4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/oso/faq/work-life-balance-wellbeing) 5. 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