Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer at Obsidian, you’ll:

Work across different parts of the product and codebase: backend services, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, product features, and internal tools. This is a good role for someone who likes variety and is comfortable learning a new area without needing everything mapped out in advance.

You might spend one week improving an ingestion service, the next building an API for a customer-facing workflow, and the next helping debug a production issue with another team. The work is practical, product-driven, and close to real customer problems.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain product features across backend services, APIs, data systems, and user-facing workflows
• Work with product managers, designers, security researchers, and other engineers to ship useful, reliable software
• Contribute to services that process SaaS activity, identity data, permissions, alerts, and security findings
• Improve existing systems for performance, reliability, maintainability, and observability
• Write clear, well-tested code and participate in code reviews and design discussions
• Learn unfamiliar parts of the stack and help where the team needs you most
• Use AI-powered development tools thoughtfully while reviewing and validating the output

What’s in It for You

• Contribute to a core product used by enterprises worldwide
• Work on security problems across SaaS, identity, data, and AI usage
• Learn from experienced engineers across the US and UK teams
• Build depth in backend engineering while getting exposure to adjacent areas like data pipelines, detection systems, cloud infrastructure, and product engineering
• Be part of a fast-moving company where engineers are expected to own real problems

Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or SQL
• Experience building backend services, APIs, data processing systems, or product features
• Familiarity with relational databases such as Postgres
• Understanding of software design principles, testing, debugging, and clean code practices
• Experience working with Git and participating in code reviews
• Comfort working in a collaborative team environment with changing requirements
• Curiosity and willingness to learn unfamiliar systems, tools, and problem domains