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ElasticSenior Software Engineer - EDR Workflows - Security
Elastic is hiring a senior software engineer for its Security EDR Workflows team. The team builds the core capabilities behind Elastic Defend management, including policy configuration…
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Elastic is hiring a senior software engineer for its Security EDR Workflows team. The team builds the core capabilities behind Elastic Defend management, including policy configuration and response actions, plus forensic capabilities delivered through OSquery. It is also extending XDR into Elastic's SIEM foundations and improving onboarding and day-to-day management of the security product. The engineer would create workflows and user-facing features for the Elastic Defend agent, helping protect against…
Job Description
Elastic is hiring a senior software engineer for its Security EDR Workflows team. The team builds the core capabilities behind Elastic Defend management, including policy configuration and response actions, plus forensic capabilities delivered through OSquery. It is also extending XDR into Elastic's SIEM foundations and improving onboarding and day-to-day management of the security product.
The engineer would create workflows and user-facing features for the Elastic Defend agent, helping protect against and respond to security threats. Work includes building and evolving APIs that let the product interact with Elastic Defend data, contributing to the architecture of the management and response-action framework, and developing scalable, high-performance systems. The engineer would own reliability, observability and operational health from design through production.
Most code is production-grade TypeScript and Node.js, with some work possibly in other languages. The role includes cross-team efforts, peer code review, design choices, and upgrades to the way the team sets standards and works, particularly those driven by AI usage. The posting expects AI to be used throughout development.
Candidates should have solid TypeScript, Node.js and React experience and be able to take problems from requirements and design through delivery, monitoring and iteration. The team wants people who ask clarifying questions, avoid assumptions, use AI to understand complex problems and ramp up quickly, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues. Experience with open-source work, the Elastic stack, or cybersecurity and forensics is a plus.
The typical starting base salary range for new hires is $128,300 to $203,000 CAD. The role is eligible for Elastic's stock program and a retirement savings plan (RRSP) that the company tops up.
Responsibilities
- Create features that run inside the Elastic Defend user interface
- Build and evolve APIs that let the product interact with Elastic Defend data
- Contribute to the architecture of the Elastic Defend management and response-action framework, including OSquery forensics
- Build systems that scale well and perform strongly across Elastic's platform
- Take responsibility for how reliable, observable and healthy features remain from design onward
- Write production-grade TypeScript and Node.js code with thorough testing
- Work across teams and improve standards and tooling shaped by AI usage
Requirements
- Hands-on skill with TypeScript, Node.js and React
- Able to own work from requirements and design through shipping, monitoring and iteration
- Use of AI to improve comprehension of complex problems and to ramp up quickly
- An AI-powered development mindset
- An initiative-taking approach that asks the right questions and avoids assumptions
- Solid communication skills, including explaining technical topics to non-technical partners
- Comfort giving and receiving feedback asynchronously across time zones
Qualifications
- Experience with, or interest in, contributing to open-source projects
- Familiarity with Elastic's stack
- Experience in cybersecurity and forensics
Core Skills
Benefits
- Pay set by the work performed, not by previous earnings
- Health coverage for employees and their families in many locations
- Flexibility over work location and schedule for many roles
- A generous annual allowance of vacation days
- A company match of up to $2,000 for financial donations and service, or the local-currency equivalent
- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave
- Eligibility for Elastic's stock program
- A retirement savings plan (RRSP) that the company tops up, with matching up to six percent of eligible earnings
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Where is the role based?
The posting lists the United States as the location.
What experience does the posting ask for?
It asks for hands-on skill with TypeScript, Node.js and React, end-to-end ownership of features and an AI-powered development mindset. The posting does not state a number of years.
What is the pay range?
The posting gives a typical starting base salary range of $128,300 to $203,000 CAD and says the role has no variable compensation component.
Is this a full-time role?
Yes, the posting lists the employment type as full-time.
How do I apply?
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