Senior Java Security Engineer — Remote & Flexible

Elastic; Mountain View (CA); Remote; USD 133,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch Security team. You will contribute to architecture and design of authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation, collaborating with engineering and product leaders to deliver high-performance security at scale.

You will lead core security initiatives, optimize performance in distributed systems, apply cryptographic solutions, and ensure robust data isolation across customers.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Java internals and JVM memory management.
• Experience building scalable authorization systems.
• Understanding of distributed systems security and edge identity protocols (OAuth 2.0, SAML).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to core security initiatives from architecture to production, delivering new features.
• Develop foundational security models for features.
• Optimize security performance in distributed systems.
• Apply cryptographic solutions to real customer use cases.
• Ensure data isolation within shared infrastructure for multiple customers.
• Monitor and apply best practices in authentication, identity, cryptography, and data access management.
• Collaborate across teams to embed security in new customer features from the outset.
• Drive vulnerability management with the InfoSec team to identify and remediate risks.
• Leverage AI-driven tools to automate triage and investigations.

Skills

Java performance

Authorization systems

Distributed security

OAuth 2.0 / SAML

AI-assisted development

Cross-functional collaboration

Autonomous work

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch Security team. You will contribute to architecture and design of authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation, collaborating with engineering and product leaders to deliver high-performance security at scale.

You will lead core security initiatives, optimize performance in distributed systems, apply cryptographic solutions, and ensure robust data isolation across customers.