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Senior Software Engineer

ElasticUnited StatesPosted Sep 2, 2026
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Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

The Security EDR Workflows team is in charge of building core capabilities that power Elastic Defend management experience. Our focus is on delivering policy configuration and management capabilities, Elastic Defend and third party providers response actions as forensics capabilities through OSquery. The team is leading XDR key expansion to our SIEM foundations and enhancing user experience in onboarding and managing our security product. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Security EDR Workflows team, you will help design and build workflows and user-facing capabilities that get to our Elastic Defend agent to protect and respond against security threats. You’ll collaborate closely with other security engineering teams, as well as with product and design, to deliver robust, high-scale features used by security practitioners around the world.

What You Will Be Doing

  • You’ll design and implement features that power Elastic Defend user interface capabilities.
  • You’ll build and evolve APIs that allow our product to interact with Elastic Defend data.
  • You’ll contribute to the architecture of Elastic Defend management and response actions framework along with OSquery forensics capabilities.
  • You’ll develop scalable, high performance systems within the Elastic ecosystem.
  • You’ll own the reliability, observability and operational health of our features, from design to production.
  • Write production-grade code in Typescript/Node JS (and potentially other languages) as part of high-quality, well-tested codebase.
  • You’ll collaborate with other Elastic engineering teams when working on cross-team efforts.
  • You’ll be helping on engineering standards, tooling and team processes improvements driven by AI usage.
  • You’ll participate in code reviews, technical design decisions, and ongoing improvements to engineering practices.
  • You’ll be using AI to supercharge development work.

What You Bring 

  • Solid programming experience in Typescript/Node JS and React JS.
  • Ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end: from clarifying requirements and proposing designs to delivering, monitoring, and iterating in production.
  • You take advantage of AI for better comprehension of complex problems and quickly ramping up into solutions.
  • You have an AI powered development mindset.
  • An initiative-taking mindset: you ask the right questions, don't make assumptions, and look for ways to improve both product and engineering processes.
  • Solid communication skills and the ability to explain complex and technical topics to both technical and non-technical partners.
  • Comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches, even asynchronous over different timezones.

Bonus Points

  • Experience and interest in contributing or developing open-source projects
  • Knowledge of the Elastic stack and solutions
  • Experience on cybersecurity and forensics.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

  • Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
  • Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
  • Generous number of vacation days each year
  • Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
  • Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
  • Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster)

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