Senior Software Engineer - Contextual Security Applications

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 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:

• Solid programming experience in Javascript/TypeScript with a particular emphasis on React.js and Node.js frameworks.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, data models, and services that support rich application workflows.
• Ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end: from clarifying requirements and proposing designs to delivering, monitoring, and iterating in production.
• Comfort working in a distributed, async-first environment and collaborating with colleagues across time zones.
• A proactive mindset: you ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and look for ways to improve both product and engineering processes.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical partners.
  
  

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with Kibana or Elasticsearch
• Contributions to open source
  
  

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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
  
  

Security & Privacy Responsibilities: Take ownership of protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational data and systems by following applicable privacy and security policies, standards, and procedures. Ensure that all individual contributions follow Elastic’s Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF). Proactively participate in mandatory role-based training to ensure personal technical execution consistently aligns with the highest standards of data protection, data privacy, and system resilience.

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 [email protected]. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster

Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster

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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 [email protected] 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; Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Poster; and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster.

Please see here for our Privacy Statement.