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
About the role
The Security Integrations group develops native and third-party security integrations powering the Elastic Security platform. Our users depend on our integrations to collect and correlate large amounts of data and detect threats in their environments quickly.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Integrations Scalability team to play a key role in using Generative AI to tackle the challenges of building and maintaining security integrations at scale. Our team's mission aims to ensure scalability by providing tooling, platforms, and resources to developers building and deploying Elastic security integrations.
What you will be doing:
- Developing and refining text prompts used to train and control large language models to generate and maintain integrations.
- Test and evaluate the performance of prompts to ensure that they are producing the desired results.
- Develop and implement highly automated and scalable validation and testing workflows.
- Optimize the ingestion, query, and storage performance of Elastic's security integrations.
- Stay up-to-date with the current state of prompt engineering and foundation model applications.
- Mentor team members of all levels.
What you bring along:
- Experience designing prompts for various implementations of foundation models.
- Ability to measure the impact of varying prompts for performance on outcomes.
- Experience writing robust, production code, with a track record of delivering high-quality software products.
- Familiarity with automated testing, code pipelines, benchmarking and software scalability standards.
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills.
- Ability to thrive in a distributed and collaborative environment.
- Excitement to work and integrate with new technologies.
Nice to have:
- Production experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Elastic Agent, or Beats.
- Experience writing production code in Go and/or Python.
- Experience in cybersecurity.
- Experience with parsing logs and events, ideally in the context of security or observability.
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
- 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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