Engineering Tech Lead – Taiwan

Obsidian Security
Taipei
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Technical leadership","Architectural judgment","Mentorship","Problem-solving","Written and verbal communication"]

Provide hands-on technical leadership to establish and scale engineering in Taiwan for a cloud security platform. Own architecture spanning data ingestion, distributed processing pipelines, log analysis, detection services, and customer-facing APIs. Lead cross-team initiatives from design through production, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. Partner with detection, security research, and SRE to improve operational readiness and observability, while mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.

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Engineering Tech Lead – Taiwan

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Job Summary

Provide hands-on technical leadership to establish and scale engineering in Taiwan for a cloud security platform. Own architecture spanning data ingestion, distributed processing pipelines, log analysis, detection services, and customer-facing APIs. Lead cross-team initiatives from design through production, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. Partner with detection, security research, and SRE to improve operational readiness and observability, while mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
Location: Taipei
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and evolve the architecture of the cloud security platform, including ingestion, processing pipelines, detection services, APIs, and infrastructure.
  • •Lead technical design and execution of complex, cross-team engineering initiatives.
  • •Design systems to process high-volume security telemetry with scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency guarantees.
  • •Establish service boundaries, data contracts, API standards, and integration patterns across the platform.
  • •Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, and contribute production-quality code and technical reviews where hands-on impact is greatest.

Key Requirements

  • •Significant software engineering experience with technical leadership on large-scale or business-critical systems.
  • •Hands-on experience designing and building cloud-native SaaS platforms, distributed systems, or large-scale data products.
  • •Deep experience across cloud infrastructure/managed services and high-volume data ingestion with stream or batch processing.
  • •Experience designing scalable APIs/backend services and data storage/indexing/querying/lifecycle management.
  • •Proven ability to lead ambiguous, multi-team technical initiatives from architecture through production delivery.
Experience:SaaSSecurityCloud-nativeDistributed systemsData platforms
Skills:Technical leadershipArchitectural judgmentMentorshipProblem-solvingWritten and verbal communication
Languages:EnglishMandarin

Company Brief

Obsidian Security
Provides cloud-native security solutions that detect and respond to identity- and configuration-based threats across SaaS, IaaS, and cloud identity platforms. Focuses on discovering risky exposures, prioritizing alerts, and enabling remediation for enterprise cloud environments.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
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