Senior Java Security Engineer — Elasticsearch Core

Elastic; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock program

RRSP with 6% match

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Developer for the Elasticsearch Security team. You will shape core security features, including authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation, across distributed systems.

Join a distributed team to design high-performance security, mentor code quality, and apply AI-driven tooling to vulnerability triage while collaborating with product and engineering leaders.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Java internals and memory management.
• Experience building scalable authorization systems.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems security and zero-trust.
• Knowledge of OAuth2.0 and SAML identities.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to core security initiatives from architecture to production.
• Develop foundational security models for features.
• Optimize security performance at scale in distributed systems.
• Apply cryptographic solutions to customer use cases.
• Ensure data isolation within shared infrastructure.

Skills

Java internals

JVM memory management

Concurrency models

High performance code

Thread-safety/Lock-free

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Developer for the Elasticsearch Security team. You will shape core security features, including authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation, across distributed systems.

Join a distributed team to design high-performance security, mentor code quality, and apply AI-driven tooling to vulnerability triage while collaborating with product and engineering leaders.