Join Elastic as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance developer experience in building and maintaining Security Integrations.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 5 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 5 hours ago
What you'll build
- Lead green-field initiatives for developer experience
- Architect tooling and automation strategy
- Mentor engineers
- Collaborate with Security and Ingest teams
- Shape direction with the open source community
Must have
- Strong proficiency in Python and Go
- Hands-on Terraform experience
- Experience building and running evals for AI systems
Nice to have
- Production experience with Elastic ingest model
- Experience in cybersecurity
- Exposure to OpenTelemetry, ECS, or OCSF
AI in the day-to-day
Leveraging Gen AI to solve problems at scale rather than one-off fixes.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer focuses on enhancing the developer experience by creating tools that streamline the integration process and data management. Key skills include proficiency in Python and Go, along with experience in Terraform and BigQuery for infrastructure and telemetry. This position is ideal for someone with a strong background in software engineering who is comfortable navigating ambiguity and collaborating across teams. The Integrations Platform team emphasizes open communication and mentorship, fostering a supportive environment for innovation.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Elastic's careers page October 3, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Elastic: Canada.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 6% of 155 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $173,000 across 64 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 41.2% of 512 comparable senior backend roles in United States; BigQuery appears in 2% of 512 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Elastic lists $133,100–$210,600 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: BigQuery, Go, Python, Terraform.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Elastic targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer - Security Integrations - Prompt Engineering role at Elastic.
From the original posting
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
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Integrations Platform team and build the tools that make engineers' lives easier, both when they're building integrations and when they're pulling data together to actually make sense of it. This role is about developer experience: understanding what developers actually struggle with day to day, and building tools that remove that friction so they can move faster and get more done.
The Integrations Platform team owns the tooling that supports how integrations get built, deployed, and understood. That includes infrastructure and deployment tooling built on Terraform, telemetry pipelines running through BigQuery, and the AI-driven tools and evaluations we use to interpret that data and turn it into something people can actually act on. You'll build and maintain these tools, listen closely to the engineers who rely on them, and take ownership of projects that span infrastructure, telemetry, and AI-assisted data interpretation, from first idea to shipped result.
This is fast-moving, often ambiguous work. We are looking for someone who is comfortable operating without a fixed spec, listens thoughtfully, and collaborates well across teams. You should drive effectively toward outcomes while supporting your teammates, bring clear ideas on what should be built, care about the developers using your tools, and feel equally comfortable working independently or alongside product teams and partners.
Prior experience with the Elastic product suite isn't required, but it helps.
What you will be doing:
- Lead green-field initiatives that shape the future of the developer experience for building and maintaining Security Integrations
- Architect and drive the tooling and automation strategy, leveraging Gen AI to solve problems at scale rather than one-off fixes
- Set a collaborative tone for the team by fostering open communication, mutual respect, and thoughtful decision-making, while mentoring engineers along the way
- Represent the team in the open, working closely with Security and Ingest teams, Elastic users, and the broader open source community to shape direction and build trust
What you bring:
- Experience building and running evals for AI systems at scale, with a strong sense of measuring output quality and catching regressions
- Strong proficiency in Python and Go, with hands-on Terraform for infrastructure and deployment, and BigQuery for telemetry and data analysis
- Proven ability to run projects end to end with autonomy, alongside the judgment to bring others along and seek input when needed
Bonus Points:
- Production experience with the general Elastic ingest model
- Experience in cybersecurity
- Experience parsing logs and events, ideally with exposure to OpenTelemetry, ECS, or OCSF in a security or observability context
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. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified 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.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. 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 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.
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