Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Elastic's Security Detection Rule Management team and contribute to the development of core features for the Elastic Security product. You will focus on improving the user experience of managing detection rules, monitoring their health and performance, and integrating Generative AI. This role involves writing and maintaining high-quality TypeScript code for both client-side and server-side applications, building UI workflows, creating Node.js APIs, and developing dev tools. Collaboration with a distributed team and the Elastic community is essential. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in software development, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and testing, along with a strong focus on quality and autonomous work.

Requirements

• Experience in developing reasonably complex software with high quality over multiple years, as well as maintaining it in production environments. Large scale is a plus
• Experience in TypeScript, React, Node.js
• Hands-on experience in writing robust unit, integration, and E2E tests
• 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
• Ability to work autonomously in a distributed team throughout the world. You’re great at driving projects without much guidance. You effectively use many async and sync communication methods and tools to make it clear and transparent for your team and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Write, test and maintain high-quality, client-side and server-side TypeScript code
• Build features and UI workflows that serve detection engineering use cases
• Create Node.js APIs and background tasks that do data searches and manipulations
• Create 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Elasticsearch and the Elastic stack is a plus

Benefits

• 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
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave