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 Detection Engine Team is responsible for building detection and alerting features that form the backbone of the Elastic Security product. The Elastic stack is widely trusted and used by the Security Analyst Community and Detection Engineers to protect against evolving threats. Our team focuses on improving workflows, streamlining the user experience, and ensuring the scalability of these critical features.

As part of this role, you will tackle the unique challenges of building features that must be performant and reliable at scale. You’ll work on optimizing detection and alerting systems capable of processing vast amounts of security data. This role requires deep technical skills, innovative thinking, and a passion for performance optimization at scale.

We are diverse and distributed, but connected! You will be working remotely with people from Germany, Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, and more. We meet via Zoom, brainstorm in Google Docs, discuss in public GitHub issues, and chat on Slack.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Write, test and maintain high-quality, client-side and server-side TypeScript code.
• Build features and UI workflows that serve detection engineering use cases.
• Build Node.js APIs and background tasks that do data searches and manipulations.
• Build dev tools that might help us improve our development process.
• Work on open-source, contribute to the Kibana codebase and issues, communicate with the Elastic community via GitHub, Slack, and discussion forums.
• Work with our support team to help customers answer questions and resolve issues.

What You Will Bring:

• Extensive experience developing reasonably complex, high-quality software over multiple years and maintaining it in production environments.
• Experience with large-scale systems is a plus.
• Experience with Typescript, React, and Node.js.
• Proven track record of writing robust unit, integration, and E2E tests.
• Experience with Elasticsearch is a plus.
• Ability to work in a distributed team.
• Focus on quality. You are a great code reviewer and you often find bugs and suggest UX improvements when reviewing or testing other people’s work. You care how the software is designed.
• You excel at driving projects without much mentorship. You effectively use many async and sync communication methods and tools to make it clear and transparent for your team and partners.

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/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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.

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