7 days ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architecture, design, planning, and production delivery of major security components in the Elasticsearch core engine.
- Build scalable authentication, authorization, tenant-isolation, identity-management, cryptographic, and data-access security features.
- Optimize security performance and concurrency across distributed systems and shared infrastructure.
- Apply cryptographic solutions, including support for TLS, certificate lifecycle management, and future quantum-resistant cryptography.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and InfoSec teams to embed security into customer features and identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities.
- Use AI-driven tools to automate vulnerability triage, prioritization, and preliminary investigation.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of Java internals, JVM memory management, concurrency models, high-performance code, thread safety, and lock-free programming.
- Experience designing scalable and performant authorization systems for high concurrency, large permission sets, distributed consistency, and credential or token validation.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems security, node-to-node mutual trust, zero-trust transport, partition tolerance, and cluster-state propagation.
- Deep knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and SAML edge identity protocols.
- Proven experience using AI to accelerate development, debugging, and code optimization.
- Ability to collaborate across functions, work autonomously, and transition across projects, codebases, and teams.
- Preferred experience with cipher suites, TLS handshakes, PKI and certificate lifecycle management, cryptographic performance considerations, post-quantum cryptography, FedRAMP, FIPS 140, SOC 2, or data-store and search-engine internals.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $133,100—$210,600 USD, with an alternate $159,900—$252,900 USD range for select locations; the role has no variable compensation component.
- Eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program and company-matched 401(k) contributions up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Distributed work environment with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage, generous vacation, at least 16 weeks of parental leave, up to 40 hours of annual volunteer time, and donation matching up to $2,000 or local equivalent.
About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.