Joblaze summary

In this role, the Software Engineer II on the Security EDR Workflows team at Elastic focuses on developing user-facing capabilities and workflows for the Elastic Defend management experience. Proficiency in Typescript and Node.js is essential, along with a mindset geared towards leveraging AI for problem-solving. This position is well-suited for engineers with a background in cybersecurity or forensics, who thrive in collaborative environments and are eager to contribute to high-scale security solutions. The team emphasizes innovation and continuous improvement, making it an engaging place for those passionate about security technology.

Joblaze insights

Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Elastic's careers page November 4, 2026.
This exact title is also open at 5 other locations at Elastic: Portugal, Greece, Poland, Spain, Ireland.
TypeScript appears in 7.7% of 375 comparable mid security roles; Node.js appears in 2.1% of 375 comparable mid security roles.

Quick facts

Is the Software Engineer II - EDR Workflows - Security role remote?: Yes — Elastic lists this as a fully remote position.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Node.js, React, TypeScript.
What seniority level is this role?: Elastic targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Software Engineer II - EDR Workflows - Security 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

The Security EDR Workflows team is in charge of building core capabilities that power Elastic Defend management experience. Our focus is on delivering policy configuration and management capabilities, Elastic Defend and third party providers response actions as forensics capabilities through OSquery. The team is leading XDR key expansion to our SIEM foundations and enhancing user experience in onboarding and managing our security product. As a Software Engineer on the Security EDR Workflows team, you will help build workflows and user-facing capabilities that get to our Elastic Defend agent to protect and respond against security threats. You’ll collaborate closely with other security engineering teams, as well as with product and design, to deliver robust, high-scale features used by security practitioners around the world. You’ll be using AI to quickly understand and solve problems.

What You Will Be Doing

You’ll implement features that power Elastic Defend user interface capabilities.
You’ll contribute to the architecture of Elastic Defend management and response actions framework along with OSquery forensics capabilities.
You’ll develop scalable, high performance systems within the Elastic ecosystem.
Write production-grade code in Typescript/Node JS (and potentially other languages) as part of high-quality, well-tested codebase.
You’ll collaborate with other Elastic engineering teams when working on cross-team efforts.
You’ll be helping on engineering standards, tooling and team processes improvements driven by AI usage.
You’ll participate in code reviews.
You’ll work with a globally distributed team of skilled engineers focused on delivering Elastic Defend and OSquery capabilities from Kibana point of view.
You’ll collaborate with team members on large product features.
You’ll be using AI to supercharge development work.

What You Bring

You have a basic knowledge of TNode JS and React JS skills. Typescript is a plus.
You take advantage of AI for better comprehension of complex problems and quickly ramping up into solutions.
You have an AI powered development mindset.
You are curious and want to engage in team meetings.
Comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches, even asynchronous over different timezones.
An initiative-taking mindset: you ask the right questions, don't make assumptions, and look for ways to improve both product and engineering processes.

Bonus Points

Experience and interest in contributing or developing open-source projects
Knowledge of the Elastic stack and solutions
Experience on cybersecurity and forensics.

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