Senior DevOps Engineer

Menlo Ventures; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in SaaS security as a DevOps/SRE, where you will be pivotal in automating and maintaining infrastructure in GCP and AWS. You will collaborate with engineering teams to ensure scalability and stability in service delivery while utilizing tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes. With competitive benefits and equity options, this is an exciting opportunity to advance your career in a fast-growing industry.

Benefits

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

Qualifications

• 4+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in GCP/AWS.
• Proficiency in designing deployment architecture for high-scale web services.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain infrastructure on GCP and AWS platforms.
• Automate infrastructure and microservices deployment.
• Collaborate on capacity planning and production maintenance.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS

GCP

Kafka

Elasticsearch

ScyllaDB

Databricks

Education

Computer science or related engineering degrees

Job description

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

Backed by top investors including Greylock, Norwest Venture Partners, and IVP, we’ve 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, we’re transforming how SaaS is secured—in 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 Zealand—including many of the world’s 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, we’re 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 infrastructure in GCP, AWS
• Address tough problems, such as scalability, stability, and visibility.
• Touch but not limited to Compute Engine, GCS, GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud DNS, VPC, PubSub, ElasticSearch, ScyllaDB, databricks, kafka, Sentry, Dagster, Airflow, Vault, Consul, Kong, etc.
• In charge of infrastructure automation with Terraform/Terragrunt, Ansible.
• Be responsible for microservice automation with Helm charts, CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, and ArgoCD.
• Work with the engineering team closely for capacity planning, performance tuning, and production maintenance.
• Work with the InfrSec team closely to address production security issues.
• Take on a call shift with the team.

About You:

• 4+ years of DevOps/SRE working experience in GCP/AWS.
• Proved ability to design deployment architecture and maintain high-scale scaled multiple-layer web services on public cloud.
• Computer science or related engineering degrees.
• Expert in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm charts, Gitlab CI/CD.
• Good experience on GCP/AWS infrastructure design and automation.
• Good experience on k8s service mesh/ingress, auto scaling, and version upgrading.
• Be able to figure out the system performance or functional issues with metrics and logs.
• Being familiar with Kafka, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, ScyllaDB, Databricks, Dagster, Sentry, and Kong 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 candidate. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is eligible for equity awards and may be eligible for incentive compensation based on factors such as experience, skills, and location.

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 [e-mail]

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Base Salary Range

$176,000—$209,000 USD