Site Reliability Engineer
Job Location:
Palo Alto, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Obsidian Security is the leading SaaS security platform trusted by global enterprises like Snowflake T-Mobile and Algolia. We protect 200 organizations across North America Europe the Middle East Southeast Asia Australia and New Zealand including many of the worlds largest Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies.
Founded in 2017 and backed by top investors like Greylock Obsidian was built to close a critical gap: securing SaaS apps where business happensMicrosoft 365 Salesforce and hundreds more. The company does this by offering a complete SaaS security platform to reduce risk detect and respond to threats and prevent breaches at the source. Obsidian was built by leaders who redefined endpoint and identity security at CrowdStrike Okta Cylance and Carbon Black. Now theyre transforming how SaaS is secured.
With AI driving rapid SaaS growth and complexity agentic AI tools gain privileged access to sensitive data through integrations creating new risks most security tools miss. Obsidian uniquely detects anomalous OAuth token activity and manages integration risks. Major announcements are on the horizon. Recognizing that SaaS security needs to evolve Obsidian enables growing organizations to start with a lightweight prevention-focused browser extension and expand coverage over time.
With global momentum a growing partner ecosystem including SentinelOne Databricks and Google Cloud and a major fundraise ahead Obsidian is scaling rapidly toward long-term growth and IPO readiness.
About the DevOps / SRE Team
The DevOps/SRE team at Obsidian ensures that engineering excellence translates into stable scalable and high-performing production systems. We work closely with Engineering Quality Engineering and Customer Support to deliver end-to-end services that bring code to life and maintain our world-class SaaS security platform.
What Youll Do
- Support and maintain the service quality of our customer-facing SaaS security platform
- Address complex challenges around scalability reliability observability and cost efficiency
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to maintain and enhance Helm charts application deployment monitoring and CI/CD pipelines
- Embed into the engineering team so that you understand the application deeply.
- Define service verification strategies and implement them as part of the CI/CD process to meet SLAs
- Improve developer experience by optimizing CI/CD workflows and performance
- Participate in the on-call rotation providing 24/7 support in coordination with our global SRE team
- Monitor debug and optimize production infrastructure and services on AWS/GCP
What Were Looking For
- 3 years of experience in a DevOps or SRE role supporting SaaS services on GCP and/or AWS
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
- Strong proficiency in Kubernetes microservices architecture Helm GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD Prometheus Grafana.
- Programming experience in at least one language; Golang or Python preferred
- Deep understanding of autoscaling version upgrades and cloud service optimization
- Bonus if youre familiar with technologies like Kafka Elasticsearch PostgreSQL ScyllaDB Databricks Dagster Sentry Kong
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
$165000 - $190000 USD
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Obsidian Security delivers complete SaaS security—gain control, stop threats, and ensure compliance across all your business apps.
