USD per year
What is The Role:
The Contextual Security Applications team is responsible for building core capabilities that power Elastic’s next-generation security experiences. Our focus is on delivering context-rich solutions that enhance detection, response, and security insights across the platform. The team is driving key expansions to our SIEM foundations and advancing our Cloud Detection & Response (CDR) capabilities, including turning findings into an insight-rich experience, introducing Security Readiness insights and reports, delivering AI-driven Compliance Reporting, and more. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Contextual Security Applications team, you will help design and build workflows and user-facing capabilities that turn raw security data into actionable context. You’ll collaborate closely with other security engineering teams, as well as with product and design, to deliver resilient, high-scale features used by security practitioners around the world.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Design and implement features that power contextual security workflows across SIEM, CDR, compliance, and cloud security.
- Build and evolve APIs that correlate entities, findings, signals, and configuration data into coherent security stories.
- Contribute to the architecture of compliance reporting, readiness insights, and other cross-cutting security experiences.
- Develop scalable, high-performance systems within the Elastic ecosystem and cloud-native environments.
- Own the reliability, observability, and operational health from design to production.
- Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to refine requirements and deliver impactful user-centered solutions.
- Write production-grade code in TypeScript/Node.js (and potentially other languages) as part of a high-quality well-tested codebase.
- Participate in code reviews technical design discussions and ongoing improvements to engineering practices.
What You Bring:
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript including React.js and Node.js.
- Strong API design skills.
- Ownership mindset: ability to own problems end-to-end.
- Experience working in distributed environments.
- Proactive mindset with strong communication skills.
Bonus Points:
- Familiarity with Kibana or Elasticsearch.
- Contributions to open source projects.
Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:
Elastic offers competitive pay health coverage flexible schedules vacation days donation matching volunteer hours parental leave equal opportunity employment policy accessibility accommodations among other benefits designed to support our people’s well-being. Elastic is committed to diversity equity inclusion ensuring a welcoming environment for all employees regardless of background or identity.
Elastic helps turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI. They offer solutions in Search, Observability, Security, and Generative AI, enabling real-time insights, AI-driven security analytics, and unified app and infrastructure visibility. They emphasize open source, distributed work culture, and data security.
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