Senior Software Engineer - Linux Cloud

Elastic is an open source search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co

Want to help protect the world's data from attackers? The Elastic Security Linux Platforms team is looking for a mid-level software engineer to join us in developing code to detect and prevent sophisticated security threats across Linux, MacOS and Windows, while working with former intelligence community and top-tier security industry engineers with extensive security expertise. If you like to collaborate with inventive minds and make a meaningful impact, join our Endpoint development team!

We are searching for a responsible, hard-working developer to fill this remote position on our Security - Linux Platforms team. This team is mainly responsible for development and maintenance of the Elastic Endpoint (on Linux), auditbeat and packetbeat. Common development focuses includes things like general performance, memory usage, CPU utilization, as well as overall architecture of event handling, communications, & other actions that are common across all platforms. This team extensively uses kprobes and ebpf for much of the data collection and an understanding of how they work or using them in the past is a great benefit. This means any experience across OS's is going to be a great add to the team. Candidates also must be self-motivated, independent and have an eagerness to learn and work as a team.

We believe in the philosophy of - Want to build a new feature or have an idea - Chase it down. Find a bug - Fix it. Then open a PR, ask some truly phenomenal people to review it, fine tune it, and merge it.

What you'll do:

• Write, code review, and unit test cross-platform code in a multi-threaded endpoint security application
• Work with our various security teams to rapidly integrate new features
• Communicate and document detail of new features with team members and quality assurance engineers
• Validating software quality by crafting & maintaining unit tests
• Provide development support and debugging to our best-in-class support team when needed
• Research and apply relevant emerging software development technologies in a risk adverse manner

What we need from you:

• Proficient in Golang with some proficiency in Python and C/C++
• Experience debugging or performance tuning
• An interest in performance testing and tooling is a big plus
• Experience with some of our tools is a plus: GitHub, Google Tests, pytest, Buildkite, cmake, behave (Python BDD)
• Elasticsearch experience is a definite nice-to-have as well as previous security experience!

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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
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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