Senior Security Engineer

Palo Alto, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 194000 - 251000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

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 Role

At Obsidian we relentlessly pursue clarity in a landscape defined by complexity. Were looking for a Senior Security Engineer who thrives at the intersection of security research and product engineering. Youll dig deep into emerging threats craft high-impact product features and help shape the defensive strategies that protect our customers at scale.

This role is for someone who loves uncovering how attackers thinkand building systems that help the security team to prevent or stop real-world attacks.

What Youll Do:

Partner with threat and security researchers to understand new risks and threats and evolving behaviors across modern SaaS and cloud environments.
Build high-signal low-noise detections that elevate our threat detection & response product capability.
Build and optimize a detection pipeline for better performance resilience and richer capabilities.
Ship features across the backend and UI end-to-end when needed to deliver the optimal outcome.

What You Bring:

Minimum Qualifications

5 years of hands-on experience in product engineering in cybersecurity.
Experience with data pipelines (dbt Kafka/PubSub Spark/Flink Athena/BigQuery etc.).
Proficiency in Python/Go/Scala and SQL.
Experience with log processing anomaly detection and applying ML models to threat detection.
Thrives in ambiguity able to translate complex findings into clear actionable steps.
Outcome-driven mindset prioritize impact over output.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving technically sophisticated environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Full-stack product experience (React/TypeScript a plus).
Strong grounding in attacker methodologies MITRE ATT&CK and modern threat actor behaviors.
Broad security domain knowledge: network and system security authentication protocols cryptography application and device security.

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

$194000 - $251000 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...