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Staff Software Engineer

About Obsidian Security

Obsidian Security is at the forefront of SaaS security, dedicated to detecting and mitigating threats effectively. With our advanced threat detection solution, we visualize user activity, identify employee compromise, and mitigate insider threats, ensuring data security before a material breach occurs.

Job Description

Join the Threat product team as a full-stack Staff Software Engineer. You will work on browser extension code (content script, background scripts, manifest v3, message passing) and backend services processing millions of events, plus data pipelines feeding our detection engine. You’ll use TypeScript, Python, and potentially Rust. Focus areas include shadow AI detection (e.g., preventing sensitive data from being pasted into LLMs) and at‑scale data processing with Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Kafka. Requirements include 8+ years of experience, deep browser knowledge (DOM, event loop, SPA routing, CORS), prior browser extension work, strong TypeScript, Python comfort, willingness to write Rust, and data-at-scale experience. Bonus: AI security, prompt injection/detection engineering or SIEM.

Location

Philadelphia, PA; Palo Alto, CA

Salary

176K

 to 

196K

Benefits

Equity, 401k

Tech Tags

Apache KafkaBackground ScriptBrowser extensionCORSContent ScriptData PipelinesElasticsearchEvent LoopEvent StreamingJavascriptManifest V3PostgreSQLPythonRustSingle Page ApplicationSpaTypescript

Equity Offered

Senior Role

Date Listed

01 July, 2026 (3 months ago)
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