Security Solution - Software Engineer

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

The Elastic Security Solutions team is building a new solution that will become the center of the Elastic security analytics offerings. The Elastic stack is already very popular among the security analyst community, and the Security Solutions team has the opportunity to significantly improve the user experience and workflows of security analysts. Challenges include collecting all the relevant data, aggregating and visualizing it, detecting and alerting on suspicious events, as well as supporting the investigation phase.

The team is diverse and distributed. You will be working remotely with people from Germany, Spain, United States, United Kingdom, and more. We meet via Zoom, brainstorm in Google docs, discuss in open GitHub issues, and chat on Slack.

Your future responsibilities:

• Write and maintain high-quality Typescript code
• Create visualizations and UI workflows that serve security analytics use cases.
• Create Node.js background tasks that do data searches and manipulations.
• Work on open-source and make SIEM technologies available to a lot of new users.
• Work with our support team to help customers and answer community questions.

Required skills:

• Experience with developing and maintaining reasonably complex software projects with high quality and over multiple years.
• Interest and experience in various types of automatic testing.
• Experience with {Node.js, Typescript, React, Elasticsearch} is a plus
• Strong understanding of data processing and analytics, particularly in the context of Security or UEBA is a plus
• Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.

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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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