What are the responsibilities and job description for the Infrastructure Security Engineer position at Observe, Inc.?
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:
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.
YouTube | Observe, Inc.
What is Observe?
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:
- Working with our security lead to implement security initiatives throughout the company such as compliance audits, DR planning and exercises, driving penetration testing, etc.
- Collaborate on AWS security-related design, configuration, maintenance
- Manage certificates, keys, secrets design and management with automation
- Help manage 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 with help from security lead.
- Assist with company-facing compliance requirements
- Participate in the infra/security on-call rotation
- 1 years of security-focused infrastructure experience
- 1 years of production SRE or devops experience (preferred but not required)
- Expertise with Kubernetes environments is a bonus
- Good understanding of AWS infrastructure, especially security aspects
- Good 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 (preferred but not required)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable working in Startup or growth stage company environments
- Candidates local to San Mateo, CA area preferred but open to remote
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.
YouTube | Observe, Inc.
What is Observe?