Staff Software Engineer
Obsidian Security · Cybersecurity
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Salary Range (USD)
$176k - $196k
Location
USA
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Not mentioned
Funding Stage
Unknown
Job Responsibilities
- • Work on the Threat product team full‑stack, including browser extension code, backend services, and data pipelines feeding the detection engine
- • Debug TypeScript content scripts that capture form submissions in SPA environments
- • Fix Python Kafka consumer lag issues
- • Optimize Rust telemetry collector hot paths
- • Build systems to detect shadow AI when employees paste sensitive data into LLMs
Required Skills
8+ years experiencereal browser knowledge (DOM, event loop, SPA routing, CORS)prior browser extension developmentstrong TypeScriptcomfortable with Pythonwilling to write Rustdata‑at‑scale experience (event streaming, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kafka)
Engineering Culture & Tech Stack
TypeScriptPythonRustKafkaPostgresElasticsearch
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Obsidian Security | Staff Software Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | $176k-$196k + equity + 401k | https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/obsidiansecurity/jobs/51527...
We secure the SaaS apps companies actually run on: M365, Salesforce, and hundreds more. You’d be on the Threat product team working full-stack. That means browser extension code (content/background scripts, manifest v3, message passing), backend services chewing through millions of events, and the data pipelines feeding our detection engine. One day you’re in TypeScript debugging why a content script won’t capture form submissions on some vendor’s weird SPA. The next you’re in Python fixing a Kafka consumer that’s falling behind. Sometimes you’re in Rust optimizing a hot path in the telemetry collector.
Big current focus is shadow AI, i.e. catching when employees paste sensitive data into ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever LLM showed up this week. You’d build the systems that detect it.
Looking for ~8+ yrs experience, real browser knowledge (DOM, event loop, SPA routing, CORS, not just “I used React”), prior browser extension work, strong TypeScript, comfortable in Python, willing to write Rust, plus data-at-scale chops (event streaming, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kafka). Bonus: AI security (prompt injection, exfiltration), detection engineering/SIEM, or security tooling.
Apply via the link above, or see all our open roles at https://www.obsidiansecurity.com/careers
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