SaaS security platform for threat detection and incident response
Obsidian Security builds a comprehensive security platform for SaaS environments, with a tech stack built around Snowflake, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Databricks for threat detection and response workflows. The company is aggressively hiring across sales (47 roles) while maintaining a smaller engineering core, paired with active projects around intelligent detection systems and infrastructure automation — indicating a product-led engineering phase shifting toward sales-driven scaling. Pain points center on SaaS-specific risk reduction and multi-tenant platform reliability, core to their market positioning.
Notable leadership hires: Tech Lead Data Scientist
Obsidian Security provides threat detection, incident response, and insider threat protection for enterprise SaaS applications. Founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, the company operates across the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. The platform is designed to reduce risk and mitigating threats across business-critical applications. With 51–200 employees and 82 active hiring roles (69 posted in the last 30 days), the company is in rapid expansion mode, with a pronounced emphasis on sales coverage and go-to-market execution alongside continuous product development in detection and infrastructure automation.
Obsidian's core stack includes Snowflake, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Databricks, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Python, and Go. They are actively adopting SentinelOne, Databricks, and GCP.
Yes, with 13 active engineering roles and 82 total open positions across the organization. The company is hiring in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, with accelerating velocity.
Obsidian Security is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and was founded in 2017. The company employs 51–200 people and is privately held.
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