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title: 'Recruiter at Opal Security'
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# Recruiter at Opal Security

- **Company:** Opal Security
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-04-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/opal/45b42128-bd7f-41be-a2b1-cd9f8910b4ec

## Job description

About Opal Security:

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.

The Role:

Opal Security’s ability to grow its team while preserving all the things we love (belief in the mission, spontaneous fun, highly skilled and hardworking colleagues) is fundamental to this next phase of growth and we need an excellent recruiter to achieve this.

Thats where you come in. You’ll be our sole, dedicated recruiter reporting to our Head of People. Your focus will be on building Go-to-Market hiring, but this isn’t a siloed role. If other roles intrigue you, you’ll be encouraged to take them on and you will have the opportunity to flex into broader strategic people work as you grow.

FYI - we are building Opal together, in person. This role is 3+ days in office in downtown San Francisco.

What You’ll Do:

- Create an effective, creative sourcing strategy that actually converts LinkedIn DMs to recruiter calls
- Become a true partner to our hiring managers: truly get to know their team, develop an opinion on who should join the team next, and help to continually evolve our interview process
- Bring Opal to IRL.. go to events, go to meetups, bring engineers to our office for pizza and Mario Kart
- Help build the infrastructure around how we hire: market maps, employer brand, and how Opal shows up to candidates before they ever apply
- Manage the candidate experience from sourcing through close
- As you ramp, there will be opportunity to flex into broader People Ops and HR work (if you want… or just recruit, recruit, recruit)

You Might Be a Fit If You:

- Have ~3–5+ years of recruiting experience, ideally some of that at a startup or high-growth company
- Have sourced and closed candidates for Engineering and/or GTM roles
- Are comfortable operating as a solo recruiter and you don't need a big team around you to do great work
- Are a critical thinker, data-driven, and Claude-confident (or at least Claude-curious)
- Are hungry to grow with a company… you want more ownership and scope than you've previously had

## About Opal Security

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – Identity Security / Access Governance
- **Target customers**: B2B Enterprise (e.g., Databricks, Notion, Cloudflare, Scale AI, CoreWeave, SpaceXAI, Superhuman)
- **Mission or purpose**: “To secure every identity and access path” [opal.dev/about](https://www.opal.dev/about)

## Products & Services
- **Paladin**: AI agent that evaluates every access request, approves safe requests automatically, escalates only what needs a human, and revokes access when no longer needed.
- **OpalScript**: Version-controlled, code-based approval workflows that scale across teams and environments; AI can generate the logic from natural language.
- **OpalQuery**: Query the entire stack in plain English to surface risk, over-provisioned access, separation-of-duties conflicts, and hidden privilege escalation paths.
- **Just-In-Time Access**: Grant privileged access only when needed, auto-revoke when work is done.
- **AI-Guided Access Reviews**: Explainable recommendations that surface the riskiest access, replacing rubber-stamp reviews.
- **Access Intelligence**: Ask who has access to what, and why, in plain English.
- **Security for AI Agents**: Define what AI agents can see, access, and execute before they touch your systems.
- **Programmable Governance**: Build access logic into workflows and approvals as version-controlled, testable code.
- **Platform integrations**: Connects to 250+ systems across cloud, identity, SaaS, databases, and AI platforms (e.g., Okta, AWS, GCP, Snowflake, GitHub, OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, ServiceNow, Salesforce).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $59M (latest $23M round announced June 2026); annual revenue not publicly available
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures, Box Group, SVCI, Cambium Capital. Advisors include former CTO of JPMorgan Chase, former CSO of Robinhood, CISO of Datadog, CEO of Abnormal Security, CTO of 1Password, CSO of Coinbase, and founder of LDAP.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named to Notable Capital’s “Rising in Cyber 2026” list (30 most promising private cybersecurity startups).
  - More than 60% of the team has joined since the start of 2026, with hiring accelerating across engineering, product, and go-to-market.
  - Major customers: Databricks runs 86,000 just-in-time access requests through Opal; Mercari governs over 5,000 Okta entitlements via automated reviews.
  - Launched the industry’s first platform to see, encode, and enforce access governance for AI agents (Paladin) in March 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture** that understands CISO context with security engineer precision.
- **Policy-as-code** (OpalScript) enables version-controlled, testable, and scalable access logic.
- **Unified governance** across humans, non-human identities (service accounts, CI/CD pipelines), and AI agents—all in one access graph.
- **Just-in-time by default** reduces standing access and attack surface.
- **Self-hosted or on-prem deployment** option for tightly controlled environments.
- **SOC 2 Type 2 certified**, independent penetration testing annually, TLS 1.2+ in transit, AWS KMS at rest, daily encrypted backups.
- **250+ integrations** with major cloud, identity, SaaS, database, and AI platforms.

## Strategic Focus
- Unify identity governance across all identity types, with a strong emphasis on securing AI agents as they proliferate in enterprise environments.
- Scale the engineering and go-to-market teams (60%+ team growth in 2026).
- Expand leadership: new Chief Product Officer (Sameer Mehta, ex-Veza), Chief Technology Officer (Alex Pien, ex-Meta), VP of Field Engineering (ex-Cisco), VP of Marketing (ex-Clumio), Head of Product & Solutions Marketing (ex-Salesforce).
- Continue to build a self-improving system that ensures resilience and enables faster movement without increasing risk.

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid work model**: Offices in San Francisco (HQ) and New York; employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
- **Fast-growing startup** backed by top-tier VCs (Greylock, Battery Ventures) with significant momentum and market recognition.
- **Mission-driven security work**: Opportunity to solve hard problems in identity security, especially at the intersection of AI and access control.
- **Cutting-edge technology**: Work on AI-native policy engines, large-scale access graphs, and integrations with hundreds of platforms.
- **Strong engineering culture** with leadership from experienced executives (ex-Meta, ex-Veza, ex-Cisco, ex-Palo Alto Networks).
- **Open roles** (as of mid-2026): Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Enterprise Account Executive, Technical Customer Success Manager, Application Security Engineer, and more.

## Sources
1. [opal.dev](https://www.opal.dev/)
2. [opal.dev/about](https://www.opal.dev/about)
3. [builtin.com/company/opal-security](https://builtin.com/company/opal-security)
4. [linkedin.com/company/opalsecurity](https://www.linkedin.com/company/opalsecurity)
5. [opal.dev/media-press/opal-security-raises-23m-new-leadership](https://www.opal.dev/media-press/opal-security-raises-23m-new-leadership)

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