# Staff Software Engineer

Hiring organization: [Obsidian Securty](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/obsidian-securty)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/1fc75134-74a6-4d9f-a6bb-36665231bd01

Listed on Obsidian Securty's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Staff
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Salary: 223000 – 239000 USD per year

## Summary

A Staff Software Engineer role leading cross-team platform and product work at a SaaS security company protecting enterprise applications. This suits experienced engineers who thrive in ambiguity, design systems at scale, and can influence technical direction across multiple teams.

_Our summary, not Obsidian Securty's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, Go, Grafana, Kubernetes, LLMs (Large Language Models), Prometheus, Python, Redis, SQL, TypeScript, Vector Databases

## Required

- 8+ years software engineering experience with increasing scope and impact
- Proficiency in Python, Go, TypeScript, or SQL
- Experience designing and building backend services, APIs, distributed systems, or data processing workflows at scale
- Deep understanding of relational databases like Postgres
- Experience with AWS or GCP cloud platforms
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with event-driven or streaming systems like Kafka or Redis
- Ability to reason about system design across performance, reliability, security, and operational tradeoffs
- Experience setting technical direction and leading cross-team initiatives
- Strong communication in code reviews, design discussions, and cross-functional planning

## Nice to have

- Observability and monitoring tools like Grafana or Prometheus
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling such as GitLab CI/CD
- Large-scale distributed systems or high-throughput data pipeline architecture
- Background or interest in security, SaaS platforms, identity, threat detection, or data protection
- Experience across multiple or geographically distributed teams
- Mentoring engineers and improving technical practices
- Experience evaluating and using AI-generated code
- Familiarity with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and inference

Apply on Obsidian Securty's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/obsidiansecurity/jobs/5374810008