Software Engineer II - EDR Workflows - Security

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 Software Engineer on the Security EDR Workflows team, you will help 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. You’ll be using AI to quickly understand and solve problems.

What You Will Be Doing:

• You’ll implement features that power Elastic Defend user interface capabilities.
• 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.
• 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.
• You’ll work with a globally distributed team of skilled engineers focused on delivering Elastic Defend and OSquery capabilities from Kibana point of view.
• You’ll collaborate with team members on large product features.
• You’ll be using AI to supercharge development work.

What You Bring:

• You have a basic knowledge of Node JS and React JS skills. Typescript is a plus.
• You take advantage of AI for better comprehension of complex problems and quickly ramping up into solutions.
• You have an AI-powered development mindset.
• You are curious and want to engage in team meetings.
• Comfortable developing collaboratively.
• Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches, even asynchronously over different time zones.
• An initiative-taking mindset: you ask the right questions, don't make assumptions, and look for ways to improve both product and engineering processes.

Bonus Points:

• Experience and interest in contributing or developing open-source projects.
• Knowledge of the Elastic stack and solutions.
• Experience in 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 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 candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.