Software Engineer
Elastic is a free and open 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 Entity Analytics team is building analytical and contextual features that are at the center of Elastic’s security offerings. The Elastic stack is widely used among the security analyst community, and our team is working to improve the user experience and workflows of these analysts. Exciting challenges await, including collecting data relevant to users and hosts, aggregating and visualizing that data, providing insights into anomalous activity, and well as supporting the investigation phase of a Security Analyst workflow.
The team is diverse and distributed, but connected!. 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 public GitHub issues, and chat on Slack.
What you’ll do:- Write and maintain high-quality, client-side and server-side Typescript code
- Build visualizations and UI workflows that serve security analytics use cases
- Build Node.js background tasks that perform data searches and manipulations
- Work on open-source software and bolster Elastic’s SIEM technologies
- Work with our support team to help customers and answer community questions
- Experience developing and maintaining reasonably complex software projects with high quality and over several years
- Solid experience writing automated tests, including unit and end-to-end tests
- Experience with Node.js, Typescript, React, and Elasticsearch is a plus
- Good understanding of data processing and analytics (within the context of Security or UEBA is a plus)
- Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world
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
Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
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