Senior Software Engineer - Prism - Security

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 Prism team builds the systems that turn Elastic Security's raw data into a trustworthy picture of the users, hosts, and services in a customer's environment. As a senior engineer, you will lead technical work across this area, partnering with product, design, and engineering to turn hard, ambiguous problems into reliable, performant systems that ship to real security teams.

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 optimise 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 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.

Requirements

• Several years of experience building and maintaining production software.
• Deep TypeScript and JavaScript skills, especially with React and Node.js.
• Successfully led projects from conception to deployment.
• A proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimise code.
• The ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.
• You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kibana, Elasticsearch, or Elastic Security.
• Experience with SIEM/UEBA.
• Knowledge of performance profiling and optimisation techniques.
• Experience building AI-assisted or agent-guided workflows with human controls.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.