Senior Data Ops Engineer

Palo Alto, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 150000 - 209000

Posted on: 05-09-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Founded in 2017 Obsidian Security was created to close a critical gap: securing the SaaS applications where modern business happensplatforms like Microsoft 365 Salesforce and hundreds more.

Backed by top investors including Greylock Norwest Venture Partners and IVP weve built a complete SaaS security platform to reduce risk detect and respond to threats and prevent breaches at the source. Our team includes leaders who helped define the categories of endpoint and identity security at CrowdStrike Okta Cylance and Carbon Black.

Now were transforming how SaaS is securedin the era of agentic AI.

Today Obsidian is trusted by global enterprises like Snowflake T-Mobile and Pure Storage. We protect more than 200 organizations across North America Europe the Middle East Southeast Asia Australia and New Zealandincluding many of the worlds largest Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies.

With strong global momentum a growing partner ecosystem including SentinelOne Databricks and Google Cloud and a major fundraise on the horizon were scaling quickly toward long-term growth and IPO readiness. Join us as we define the future of SaaS security!

About the Team:

DevOps focuses on providing an end-to-end service to turn software into live services. We work closely with Engineering QE and Customer Support teams to continuously improve engineering productivity and service reliability.

About the Role:

Join this highly motivated team to build and maintain data infrastructure in AWS GCP for our cutting-edge SaaS security platform
In charge of building and maintaining data infrastructure with IaC code
Address tough problems such as scalability stability and visibility.
Touch but not limited to Cloud SQL ElasticSearch ScyllaDB Databricks Kafka Sentry Dagster Airflow Vault Consul Kong Compute Engine GCS GKE Cloud DNS VPC PubSub etc.
Be responsible for building and maintaining ElasticSearch RedPanda ScyllaDB RDS and Redis clusters in AWS GCP environments. Make sure the service is reliable scalable and high-performance which is required by the application.
Work with the engineering team and DevOps closely for capacity planning performance tuning and production maintenance.
Work with the InfoSec team closely to address related production security issues.
Take on a call shift with the team.

About You:

5 years of Data Ops working experience in AWS/GCP.
Proven ability to be able to design build and maintain major infrastructure components such as ElasticSearch RedPanda(kafka) ScyllaDB(Cassandra) RDS(PostgreSQL) and Reds. Be able to address the performance issue and solve it efficiently.
Computer science or related engineering degrees.
Expert in ElasticSearch RedPanda(Kafka) ScyllaDB(Cassandra) RDS(PostgreSQL).
Good to have experience with Databricks Dagster Airflow.
Good experience on automating things with IaC(Terraform Ansible).
Being familiar with Prometheus is a plus.

Employee Benefits

Our competitive benefits packages are designed to support our employees well-being both at work and at home. Our US based employees enjoy:

Competitive compensation with equity and 401k
Comprehensive healthcare with dental and vision coverage
Flexible paid time off and paid holiday time off
12 weeks of new parent or family leave
Personal and professional development resources

For more details on our US benefits or for information on our international benefits please see here.

Pay Transparancy

Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as well as the knowledge skills and experience of the addition to a competitive base salary this position is eligible for equity awards and may be eligible for sales commission or incentive compensation based on the role or function within the company.

At Obsidian we are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and hire for talent passion and compliance with federal law all persons hired will be required to submit satisfactory proof of identity and legal authorization. If you have a need that requires accommodation please contact

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Base Salary Range

$150000 - $209000 USD

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Founded in 2017 Obsidian Security was created to close a critical gap: securing the SaaS applications where modern business happensplatforms like Microsoft 365 Salesforce and hundreds more.Backed by top investors including Greylock Norwest Venture Partners and IVP weve built a complete SaaS security...