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The Obsidian Security platform gives unified visibility into every human and machine identity, app, and integration across their SaaS estate, detects identity-based and supply chain attacks in real time, and enforces least-privilege access before it's exploited. Trusted by major Fortune 500 companies T-Mobile, Workday, Snowflake, and S&P Global, Obsidian ranked No. 95 on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, growing nearly 1000% from 2021-2024 - helping CISOs turn an unmonitored attack surface into one they can govern with confidence. Obsidian has also been recognized by Forbes as America's Best Startup Employers in 2026.\nIn August 2026, Obsidian raised $85 million in Series D financing led by Crescent Cove Advisors, with participation from existing investors including Greylock Partners, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, IVP, Wing Ventures, and GV - pushing Obsidian's valuation to $1.1 billion, crossing into unicorn status. 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You're accountable for each piece of content delivering security value in customers' environments.\nRequired Skills: \nHands-on knowledge of how agentic tools work: tool calling, hooks and lifecycle events, MCP servers and transports, skills and plugins, permission modes\nSolid grasp of agent-specific attack classes: direct and indirect prompt injection, tool and description poisoning, confused-deputy and excessive-agency issues, secret leakage into context, and malicious or over-permissioned MCP servers and extensions.\nAble to tell real risk from theoretical risk and explain the difference to a customer.\nStrong SQL, ideally on analytical stores like ClickHouse, Databricks, or Snowflake.\nDisciplined about testing: builds reproducible test cases (positive and negative) before shipping content.\nProficient scripting in Python or Go, enough to build test harnesses, parse event logs, and perform detections.\nWorking knowledge of SaaS and cloud identity (OAuth, PATs, API tokens, scopes) and of developer tooling (Git, GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD).\nAble to explain an agent attack chain to engineers, product and customer-facing teams.\nNice to Have:\nPublished research, CVEs, talks, or blog posts on LLM or agent security.\nFamiliarity with threat detection.\nHands-on experience with endpoint security on macOS, Linux, or Windows\nExperience with dbt, Dagster, or other data-pipeline tooling.\nBackground in a SaaS security, CASB/SSPM, or insider-threat product.\nHas used Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar heavily in daily work and has opinions about their security models.\nEmployee Benefits:\nOur competitive benefits packages are designed to support our employees' well-being, both at work and at home. 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