engineering
Posted 3 days agoSenior Software Developer - Security - Elasticsearch
at Elastic
CanadaOn-site
Responsibilities
- Drive vulnerability management efforts by collaborating closely with the InfoSec team to proactively identify, assess, and remediate security risks.
Requirements
- 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
- Participating in the technical design, planning, and execution for major security components inside the Elasticsearch core engine.
- Leverage AI-driven tools to automate vulnerability triage, prioritization, and preliminary investigation, streamlining security workflows and reducing manual intervention. What You Bring
- You have deep knowledge of Java internals and JVM memory management. You understand how concurrency models work. You can write code that is high-performance, thread-safe, and lock-free. This
- experience includes working with large open-source and enterprise codebases. You have
- You have a solid comprehension of distributed systems security, including node-to-node mutual trust, zero-trust transport, partition tolerance and cluster state propagation.
- You have a deep knowledge of edge identity protocols (OAuth 2.0, SAML).
- You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still collaborating on the final outcomes.
- You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
- Knowledge of cipher suites, TLS handshakes, and PKI/certificate lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with the implications of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and readiness to support the migration of services to quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. Hands-on
- Experience working on the internals of a data store or search engine.
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role.
Benefits
- You can work autonomously, supporting decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication. Bonus Points
- Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.
- These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.
- An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
- Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other
- The typical starting salary range for this role is: $128,300 — $203,000 CAD Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Generous number of vacation days each year Increase
- your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
- Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster)
Contact
- To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co . We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.
Additional details
- In this role, you will contribute to the architecture and design of Elasticsearch's main features.
- These features include authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation.
- You will work with engineering and product leaders at Elastic.
- Your goal is to participate in providing high-performance security at all levels.
- This includes ensuring that our distributed data store has top-quality security at scale.
- Contributing to core security initiatives from architecture to production, focusing on the delivery of new critical features.
- Developing the foundational security models for features.
- Optimizing security performance at scale in distributed systems environments.
- Applying cryptographic solutions to address genuine customer use cases.
- Ensuring robust data isolation within shared infrastructure supporting disparate customers.