Staff IT Systems Engineer at Obsidian Security
Palo Alto, CA
$203,000–$224,000
Jul 30, 2026
Palo Alto, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role is the senior technical owner of identity, endpoint, and IT platform infrastructure at a SaaS security company. The engineer will manage Okta end-to-end (SSO, MFA, lifecycle, governance), run a Mac fleet via Jamf Pro, and operate the entire configuration stack as infrastructure-as-code using Terraform/OpenTofu and GitHub. A strong emphasis is placed on AI-augmented operations, automation, and zero-trust access patterns.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $203,000–$224,000
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 1,700–7,400
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 $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425). 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 Aug 1, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
This role sits at the boundary between systems/IT administration (15-1244) and software/infrastructure engineering (15-1252). The infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and AI-augmented automation emphasis pushes toward 15-1252, but the primary day-to-day work — owning Okta, Jamf, endpoint management, and IT platform operations — is more characteristic of 15-1244. Medium confidence reflects this genuine ambiguity.
The posting lists 'Staff IT Systems Engineer' in the title, which maps to the Staff advertised level. However, the actual scope and requirements (8+ years, senior technical owner of a single company's IT stack) are consistent with a Senior individual contributor rather than a true Staff-level role with cross-team technical authority.
No work location is specified beyond the company being US-based; the role appears to be remote or location-flexible within the US. No CBSA has been assigned.
Intune is listed as an alternative to Jamf under the MDM depth requirement ('Hands-on MDM depth with Jamf or Intune at fleet scale') — captured as a separate skill with Jamf Pro as its alternative to reflect the interchangeable framing.
The 'Daily use of AI coding tools' requirement names no specific tool and has been omitted as it does not identify a concrete named technology.
Workload Identity Federation is mentioned in the narrative as a technique rather than a discrete product and has been omitted from the skills list.
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