Infrastructure Security Engineer
Observe is a SaaS Observability product which enables businesses to investigate modern distributed applications 10x faster. Observe ingests anything with a timestamp (e.g. system and application logs, metrics, and traces), and then structures that data so that it is correlated and easy to navigate. We enable engineers to spend more time coding features and less time investigating incidents. Finally, because of Observe’s unique elastic architecture, it is priced based on usage, making it cost 10x less than incumbents. Watch this video to learn more about our mission.
Traditional approaches to this problem have resulted in fragmented tooling and fragile dashboards which, in turn, have resulted in exploding costs and complexity. At Observe, we believe that the core challenge lies in organizing and relating telemetry data emitted by those applications, despite the fact it is constantly changing. Solving this data problem makes observability an order of magnitude easier, faster, and less expensive. At Observe, we didn’t set out to build another monitoring tool company, we set out to build a data company. Observe is founded by top enterprise VC Sutter Hill Ventures and has a founding team from leading Enterprise SaaS companies Snowflake, Splunk, and Wavefront.
Observe embraces a modern cloud-first infrastructure. While empowering, modern architecture brings with it modern security challenges. At Observe, we treat security as a pervasive, holistic, end-to-end endeavor. We are looking for a security infrastructure generalist to grow with us as we build a reliable and secure base for our product. Come help us secure all the things!
Sample of Responsibilities:
- Drive security initiatives throughout the company such as compliance audits, DR planning and exercises, driving penetration testing, etc.
- AWS security-related design, configuration, maintenance
- Certificate, key, secrets design and management with automation
- Network access architecture: VPN vs ZTA vs micro-segmentation
- SCA (Software Composition Analysis) and VM (Vulnerability Management)
- HIDS, NIDS, EDR initiatives
- You will be able to prioritize the efforts within scope of team objectives.
- Assist with company-facing compliance requirements
- Participate in the infra/security on-call rotation
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of security-focused infrastructure experience (min, at Sr level)
- 3+ years of production SRE or devops experience (preferred but not required)
- Expertise with Kubernetes environments
- Deep understanding of AWS infrastructure, especially security aspects
- Deep understanding of general Internet security fundamentals and best practices
- Competent software engineering skills — beyond scripting level (a big bonus)
- Experience with IaC tools, and possessing an IaC mindset
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Startup or growth stage experience
- Local candidates preferred but open to remote
About Us:
Observe's mission is to turn business data into information. Our SaaS Observability product ingests anything with a timestamp - logs, metrics, traces - and then curates and relates that data to provide unique insights into a customer’s data universe. If a customer has a problem on the application layer, engineering teams can seamlessly find the root cause of the issue whether that’s a new release pushed to production from Jenkins, or an underlying database or memory issue. We enable engineers to spend more time coding features and less time investigating incidents. We reduce outages and issues with customer experience. And we leverage an elastic cloud architecture so that customers only pay for what they use. To learn more about Observe, visit www.observeinc.com or join the conversation on Twitter @Observe_Inc.
Observe Inc. is a diversity-friendly zone. We seek to assemble a heterogeneous team where employees from all backgrounds can feel valued, appreciated, and celebrated, and where individual development does not come second to our collective goals.
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What We Do
Observe was founded by Sutter Hill Ventures in November 2017. Our founding team came from leading Enterprise SaaS and software companies that work with vast quantities of data such as Snowflake, Splunk and Wavefront.
Our founding thesis was that the enterprises are data rich, but information poor. Data is siloed making it difficult to understand what’s going on inside applications and infrastructure. The result is often a poor customer experience and wasted engineering time tracking down incidents. Oh, and it costs a fortune.
Observe discerns why applications and infrastructure are running the way they are from the data they emit. We enable engineers to spend more time coding features and less time investigating incidents. We reduce outages and issues with customer experience. And we leverage an elastic cloud architecture so that you only pay for what you use.
