Obsidian Security
Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Palo Alto, California, USa · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$232k-$263kDetected 76 days ago
Distributed SystemsGitSnowflakeDatabricksAWSGCPKubernetesHelmCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringOAuthAgentic AIDetection EngineeringSalesforceLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- We protect 200+ organizations across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, including many of the world's largest Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies.
- Obsidian was built by leaders who redefined endpoint and identity security at CrowdStrike, Okta, Cylance, and Carbon Black.
- Now, they're transforming how SaaS is secured.
Responsibilities
- Reliability Strategy & Architecture - Define and lead long-term reliability strategy across services. Establish end-to-end system visibility frameworks and guide architecture for observability, detection, and resilience.
- Cross-Org Leadership - Partner across teams to embed reliability, standardize SLI/SLOs, and serve as a technical escalation expert.
- Incident Management - Define and evolve a tiered incident communication strategy, improve response practices, and lead postmortems to strengthen reliability and customer trust.
- Execution - Contribute hands-on to system design, monitoring, and debugging across distributed systems and data pipelines.
- Reliability Strategy & Architecture - Define and lead long-term reliability strategy across services.
Requirements
- 5+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or related roles
- 3+ years operating at a senior or technical leadership level (Staff or equivalent scope)
- Deep expertise in:
- Proven experience designing and scaling reliability systems for multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to submit satisfactory proof of identity and legal authorization.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with third-party SaaS connector architectures and ingestion patterns
- Experience designing customer-facing status pages and incident communication frameworks
- Tackle complex distributed systems challenges
- Issues caught and resolved before customer impact
- Reliability is measurable and continuously improving
- Teams self-serve observability with scalable tools
- Reliability becomes a competitive advantage
- What Success Looks Like
Compensation
- $232,000 - $263,000 USD
Benefits
- Our competitive benefits packages are designed to support our employees' well-being, both at work and at home.
- 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
- For more details on our US benefits, or for information on our international benefits, please see here.
- In 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.
Company info
- Obsidian Security is the leading SaaS security platform, trusted by global enterprises like Snowflake, T-Mobile, and Algolia.
- Founded in 2017 and backed by top investors like
- At Obsidian, we are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.
Equal opportunity
- If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact accommodations@obsidiansecurity.com
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