Site Reliability Engineer

Obsidiansecurity · Palo Alto, California, USA · Engineering

Posted 2026-08-26

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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 You’ll 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 We’re Looking For

3+ years of experience in a DevOps or SRE role supporting SaaS services on GCP and/or AWS

Bachelor's 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 you're 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 candidate. 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.

At Obsidian, we are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and hire for talent, passion, and compassion. In 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 accommodations@obsidiansecurity.com

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Base Salary Range

$165,000—$190,000 USD

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