Site Reliability Engineer at Obsidian Security
Palo Alto, CA
$165,000–$190,000
Jul 2, 2026
Palo Alto, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A DevOps/SRE role focused on keeping a cloud-hosted SaaS security platform stable, scalable, and performant. Day-to-day work involves maintaining Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS and GCP, managing Helm charts and CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and ArgoCD, and participating in an on-call rotation. Well-suited to engineers with hands-on SaaS infrastructure experience who are comfortable working closely with product engineering teams.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $165,000–$190,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 14,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,000–21,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'DevOps / SRE' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3+ years requirement and scope (team-embedded, on-call, CI/CD and infra work) support a Mid-level classification.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and maintains CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, and deployment automation (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong operational/monitoring mandate (on-call, production infra, observability) that could support 15-1244. The shipping-code signals edge it toward 15-1252.
GCP and AWS appear together as 'GCP and/or AWS' in the requirements section — both are listed as required with each as an alternative for the other, since the JD accepts either.
Golang and Python are listed as preferred languages within the required programming experience gate ('Programming experience in at least one language; Golang or Python preferred'). The programming experience itself is a hard gate; Golang is listed as the primary with Python as an alternative.
The Bonus section ('Bonus if you're familiar with…') covers Kafka, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, ScyllaDB, Databricks, Dagster, Sentry, and Kong — all treated as preferred.
No work location is specified beyond US-based benefits being mentioned; the role appears to be remote or location-flexible within the US. No city or metro is identifiable from the posting.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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