Site Reliability Engineer

Menlo Ventures; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

Comprehensive healthcare with dental and vision coverage

Flexible paid time off

12 weeks of new parent or family leave

Job summary

Obsidian Security is seeking a DevOps/SRE professional in Palo Alto, California, to ensure high-performing production systems for our SaaS security platform. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in a similar role and strong skills in Kubernetes and cloud services. This position offers competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare, and development resources.

You will collaborate with various teams to tackle scalability and reliability issues while maintaining operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a DevOps or SRE role supporting SaaS services on GCP and/or AWS.
• Strong proficiency in Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and CI/CD tools.
• Bonus if you’re familiar with Kafka, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain the service quality of our customer-facing SaaS security platform.
• Address complex challenges around scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

GitLab CI/CD

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Golang

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

ScyllaDB

Databricks

Dagster

Sentry

Kong

Job description

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 world’s 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 happens—Microsoft 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, they’re 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 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 optimise 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 optimisation
• Bonus if you’re familiar with technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, ScyllaDB, Databricks, Dagster, Sentry, Kong

Employee 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

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 [e-mail]

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Base Salary Range: $165,000 – $190,000 USD