Software Engineer (EDR Workflows - Security)

Elastic; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible location and schedule

Generous vacation days

16 weeks parental leave

Volunteer time (40 hours/year)

Charitable donation matching ($1500)

Job summary

Elastic is hiring a Software Engineer for the Security EDR Workflows team in Ireland. You will help build workflows that power the Elastic Defend agent, enabling protection and rapid response to security threats.

You will collaborate with global teams to deliver robust, scalable features for security practitioners worldwide. You will work on AI-driven problem solving, contribute to the Elastic Defend UI, and help shape OSquery forensics capabilities.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Node.js and React.js; Typescript is a plus.
• Experience in cybersecurity and forensics.
• Interest in contributing to open-source projects.

Responsibilities

• Build workflows and user-facing features powering Elastic Defend integration.
• Collaborate with product, design and other security teams to deliver high-scale features.
• Contribute to the architecture of Elastic Defend management and OSquery forensics capabilities.
• Write production-grade code in TypeScript/Node.js as part of a high-quality codebase.
• Participate in code reviews and improve engineering processes using AI tooling.

Skills

Node.js

React.js

Typescript

AI mindset

Team collaboration

Tools

Elastic stack

Job description

• The Security EDR Workflows team is in charge of building core capabilities that power Elastic Defend management experience
• Our focus is on delivering policy configuration and management capabilities, Elastic Defend and third party providers response actions as forensics capabilities through OSquery
• The team is leading XDR key expansion to our SIEM foundations and enhancing user experience in onboarding and managing our security product
• As a Software Engineer on the Security EDR Workflows team, you will help build workflows and user-facing capabilities that get to our Elastic Defend agent to protect and respond against security threats
• You’ll collaborate closely with other security engineering teams, as well as with product and design, to deliver robust, high-scale features used by security practitioners around the world
• You’ll be using AI to quickly understand and solve problems
• You’ll implement features that power Elastic Defend user interface capabilities
• You’ll contribute to the architecture of Elastic Defend management and response actions framework along with OSquery forensics capabilities
• You’ll develop scalable, high performance systems within the Elastic ecosystem
• Write production-grade code in Typescript/Node JS (and potentially other languages) as part of high-quality, well-tested codebase
• You’ll collaborate with other Elastic engineering teams when working on cross-team efforts
• You’ll be helping on engineering standards, tooling and team processes improvements driven by AI usage
• You’ll participate in code reviews
• You’ll work with a globally distributed team of skilled engineers focused on delivering Elastic Defend and OSquery capabilities from Kibana point of view
• You’ll collaborate with team members on large product features
• You’ll be using AI to supercharge development work

Benefits

• Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
• Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
• Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
• Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
• Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.
• Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).

You take advantage of AI for better comprehension of complex problems and quickly ramping up into solutionsYou have an AI powered development mindsetComfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches, even asynchronously over different time zonesAn initiative-taking mindset: you ask the right questions, don’t make assumptions, and look for ways to improve both product and engineering processesYou have a basic knowledge of Node JS and React JS skills. Typescript is a plusYou are curious and want to engage in team meetingsExperience and interest in contributing or developing open-source projectsKnowledge of the Elastic stack and solutionsExperience on cybersecurity and forensics