Senior Security Analyst

San Mateo, CA
Engineering /
Full-time /
On-site
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 analyst to grow with us as we build a reliable and secure lens for our infrastructure. Come help us secure all the things!

Sample of Responsibilities

    • Build insights and analysis in areas such as network flow logs, k8s audit logs, runtime analysis, etc.
    • SaaS based log ingestion pipeline creation
    • Other ETL/ELT pipeline creation
    • Product shaping and testing
    • Choose your own adventure, within scope of team objectives.
    • Collaborate on other security team initiatives

Qualifications

    • 5+ years of security-focused experience (required)
    • 3+ years of production SOC or blue team experience (preferred)
    • Expertise with Kubernetes environments
    • Deep understanding of AWS infrastructure, especially security aspects
    • Deep understanding of threat hunting fundamentals and frameworks
    • Competent data engineering/analysis/coding (preferred)
    • Experience with tools such as Terraform or IaC concepts
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills
    • Startup or growth stage experience
    • Local candidates preferred
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.