Security Analytics - Senior Fullstack Software Engineer

What Is The Role :

The Security Detection Engine Tea m is responsible for building detection and alerting features that form the backbone of the Elastic Security product. The Elastic stack is widely trusted and used by the Security Analyst Community and Detection Engineers to protect against evolving threats. Our team focuses on improving workflows streamlining the user experience and ensuring the scalability of these critical features.

As part of this role you will tackle the unique challenges of building features that must be performant and reliable at scale. You’ll work on optimizing detection and alerting systems capable of processing vast amounts of security data. This role requires deep technical skills innovative thinking and a passion for performance optimization at scale.

We are diverse and distributed but connected! You will be working remotely with people from Germany Netherlands United States United Kingdom and more. We meet via Zoom brainstorm in Google Docs discuss in public GitHub issues and chat on Slack.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Write test and maintain high-quality client-side and server-side TypeScript code.

• Build features and UI workflows that serve detection engineering use cases.

• Build Node.js APIs and background tasks that do data searches and manipulations.

• Build dev tools that might help us improve our development process.

• Work on open-source contribute to the Kibana codebase and issues communicate with the Elastic community via GitHub Slack and discussion forums.

• Work with our support team to help customers answer questions and resolve issues.

What You Will Bring:

• Extensive experience developing reasonably complex high-quality software over multiple years and maintaining it in production environments.

• Experience with large-scale systems is a plus.

• Experience with Typescript React and Node.js.

• Proven track record of writing robust unit integration and E2E tests.

• Experience with Elasticsearch is a plus.

• Ability to work in a distributed team.

• Focus on quality. You are a great code reviewer and you often find bugs and suggest UX improvements when reviewing or testing other people’s work. You care how the software is designed.

• You excel at driving projects without much mentorship. You effectively use many async and sync communication methods and tools to make it clear and transparent for your team and partners.