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Obsidian Security | REMOTE (US-Eastern hours ideal) or ONSITE (Palo Alto / Newport Beach) | Full-Time | VISA OK | Salary $149k–$208k + equity

We secure the SaaS apps—Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and hundreds more—where modern business happens, blocking breaches *in real time*.

Why Obsidian?

  - Founded 2017; backed by Greylock, Norwest, IVP, and others, now scaling toward IPO.  
  - Trusted by Snowflake, T-Mobile, Pure Storage & 200+ enterprises on five continents.  
  - Momentum: $90 M Series C, new AI-driven defenses, expanding partner ecosystem.
Senior Threat Backend Engineer

Own the APIs, event pipelines, and extension logic that power our browser-native security product. Ship to prod the day you merge.

You will:

  - Build & refine threat detections with our security research team.  
  - Stream and enrich event data through Kafka → Postgres/Elasticsearch.  
  - Extend our Chromium-based browser extension (WXT).  
  - Add new SaaS services to the platform; optimize data stores for scale.
Stack highlights:

  - Python + FastAPI / asyncio  
  - TypeScript + WXT 
  - Rust micro-services
  - Kafka
  - Docker/K8s
  - Postgres & Elasticsearch
You bring:

  - 4–6 yrs software engineering (cyber-security a plus).  
  - Deep Python async skills; Kafka & K8s in production.  
  - DB mastery (Postgres + Elastic).  
  - Clear communication & bias toward ownership.
Apply here: https://grnh.se/a646066d8us


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