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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Obsidian Security, Inc.
- **Location:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $165,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing Security, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Octopus Deploy, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Software Deployment, Management of Software Versions, Autoscaling, Grafana, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Sentry, Apache Kafka, Databricks, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/site-reliability-engineer-obsidian-security-8691886

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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., * 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


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