Senior Software Engineer, Security Solution — Triage & Investigation

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

The lantern team builds the Elastic Security experiences that analysts use to triage alerts, investigate threats, and advance work forward. We help people understand what happened, review the evidence, and choose what to do next. Our work covers alert triage, investigations, and escalation. We are also building AI-guided features that help analysts act faster while keeping people in control. As a senior engineer, you will lead technical work across this area. You will work with product, design, and engineering partners to turn complex problems into clear, reliable experiences for security teams. Lantern is a distributed team. We work across time zones and collaborate in GitHub, Slack, design reviews, and code reviews.

What you will be doing

Build secure, accessible, and fast investigation workflows in Kibana.

Own small-to-medium projects from technical design through production.

Improve how users triage alerts, review evidence, collaborate, and escalate work.

Write high-quality TypeScript and React code, with Node.js services and APIs where needed.

Work with product and design to make complex analyst workflows easier to use.

Make functional trade-offs across usability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Review code, mentor teammates, and improve team practices.

Partner with teams across Elastic Security, Kibana, Support, and the open-source community.

What you bring

Several years of experience building and maintaining production software.

Deep TypeScript and JavaScript skills, especially with React and Node.js.

Experience building user-facing workflows backed by APIs, data models, and services.

Comfort taking an unclear problem, proposing an approach, and leading it to completion.

A proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.

The ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities

Care for quality, including testing, telemetry, accessibility, security, and performance.

Experience with technical design and constructive code review.

Interest in security analysts’ work and the challenges of investigation and incident response.

Bonus points

Experience with Kibana, Elasticsearch, or Elastic Security.

Experience with SIEM, security operations, detection engineering, or incident response.

Experience building AI-assisted or agent-guided workflows with human controls.

Open-source contributions or experience with large open-source codebases.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

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

Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

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 employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. 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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