Senior Software Engineer - Prism - Security

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><h3><strong>What is The Role</strong></h3> <div class="p" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="f5edm-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f5edm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f5edm-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Prism team builds the systems that turn Elastic Security's raw data into a </span></span><span id="popover-trigger-:ro:" class="chakra-text css-8zk7oi"><span data-offset-key="f5edm-1-0"><span data-text="true">trustworthy</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="f5edm-2-0"><span data-text="true"> picture of the users, hosts, and services in a customer's environment. We power the Entity Store, entity risk scoring, entity resolution, and the data maintainers that analysts rely on to understand who did what, what's risky, and what to investigate next. We build features that have to work at scale, and we care deeply about correctness and performance.</span></span></div> </div> <div class="p" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="aibue-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="aibue-0-0">&nbsp;</div> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="aibue-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aibue-0-0"><span data-text="true">As a senior engineer, you will lead technical work across this area. You'll partner with product, design, and engineering to turn hard, ambiguous problems into reliable, performant systems that ship to real security teams.</span></span></div> </div> <div class="p" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="4njn2-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4njn2-0-0">&nbsp;</div> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4njn2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4njn2-0-0"><span data-text="true">We're a distributed team — we work across time zones and collaborate in GitHub, Slack, design reviews, and code reviews.</span></span></div> </div> <h3><strong>What You Will Be Doing</strong></h3> <ul class="public-DraftStyleDefault-ul" data-offset-key="9nvpl-0-0"> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-reset public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="9nvpl-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9nvpl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9nvpl-0-0"><span data-text="true">Own small-to-medium projects from technical design through production, including data modeling, background tasks, and APIs.</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="7n9b0-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7n9b0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7n9b0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Make our features fast and reliable at scale: profile and optimize queries, tame timeouts, and design for a range of customer topologies.</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="54i1f-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="54i1f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="54i1f-0-0"><span data-text="true">Write high-quality TypeScript and React code, with Node.js services and APIs where needed.</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="b4q6b-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b4q6b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b4q6b-0-0"><span data-text="true">Build telemetry, tests, and safeguards so the systems behave predictably in production.</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="eok2o-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="eok2o-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eok2o-0-0"><span data-text="true">Review code, support teammates, and improve team practices.</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="d73u8-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="d73u8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d73u8-0-0"><span data-text="true">Partner with teams across Elastic Security, Kibana, Elasticsearch/ES|QL, and Support.</span></span></div> </li> </ul> <h3>What You Bring</h3> <ul class="public-DraftStyleDefault-ul" data-offset-key="bkb0d-0-0"> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-reset public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="bkb0d-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bkb0d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bkb0d-0-0"><span data-text="true">Several years of experience building and maintaining production software.</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="4fkoc-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4fkoc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4fkoc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Deep TypeScript and JavaScript skills, especially with React and Node.js</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="8vo39-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="8vo39-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8vo39-0-0"><span data-text="true">Successfully led projects from conception to deployment</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="7pptr-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7pptr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7pptr-0-0"><span data-text="true">A proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="65rta" data-offset-key="9sd7p-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9sd7p-0-0"><span 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