Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Security Platforms

Elastic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible location and schedule

Generous vacation days

Parental leave

Volunteer hours

Charitable giving match

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead technical work across Elastic Security in London or remotely within the UK. You will own small-to-medium projects from design through production, focusing on data modeling, APIs, and scalable services.

Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. You will write high-quality TypeScript/React code, optimize queries, and contribute telemetry and tests in production.

Qualifications

• Deep TypeScript and JavaScript skills, especially with React and Node.js.
• Successfully led projects from conception to deployment.
• The ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.
• Several years of experience building and maintaining production software.
• Experience with Kibana, Elasticsearch, or Elastic Security.
• Experience with SIEM/UEBA.
• Knowledge with performance profiling and optimization techniques.
• Experience building AI-assisted or agent-guided workflows with human controls.

Responsibilities

• Own small-to-medium projects from technical design through production, including data modeling, background tasks, and APIs.
• Make features fast and reliable at scale: profile and optimize queries, tame timeouts, and design for a range of customer topologies.
• Write high-quality TypeScript and React code, with Node.js services and APIs where needed.
• Build telemetry, tests, and safeguards so the systems behave predictably in production.
• Review code, support teammates, and improve team practices.
• Partner with teams across Elastic Security, Kibana, Elasticsearch/ES|QL, and Support.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

AI acceleration

SIEM/UEBA

Kibana

Elasticsearch

Elastic Security

Data modeling

APIs

Tools

Kibana

Elasticsearch

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead technical work across Elastic Security in London or remotely within the UK. You will own small-to-medium projects from design through production, focusing on data modeling, APIs, and scalable services.

Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. You will write high-quality TypeScript/React code, optimize queries, and contribute telemetry and tests in production.