Security Solution Engineering Productivity Software Engineer

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

In this role, you will help ensure Elastic’s Security products deliver quality, reliability, and performance at scale while making development and release processes more efficient for engineers across the organization. You’ll have a particular focus on the tooling, infrastructure, and realistic workloads that help teams understand how their products behave under load and catch performance regressions early. If you think systematically, thrive in ambiguity, and enjoy enabling teams to build and ship software effectively at scale, we’d love to hear from you.

What You Will Be Doing

You will build and improve the frameworks, reusable components, and operational guidelines that help teams own the full software development lifecycle for their services.

Design and implement custom tools to improve testing capabilities and create user-friendly interfaces for internal tools to aid engineers. Develop automation scripts to streamline build and deployment processes, while integrating monitoring solutions to track the performance of the tools. Optimize existing toolsets for enhanced usability and efficiency.

Analyze in-house and customer performance metrics to pinpoint bottlenecks in security products. Implement performance testing frameworks to ensure software meets efficiency standards. Collaborate closely with engineering teams to optimize code and monitor application performance across different scenarios. Propose enhancements aimed at boosting system scalability and overall efficiency.

Design and manage infrastructure components to establish robust testing environments. Deploy monitoring solutions to track and assess infrastructure performance. Implement security best practices throughout the management process and analyze usage patterns for optimal resource allocation. Troubleshoot and address any infrastructure-related issues that impact performance.

Identify and target areas for process improvement within engineering workflows. Implement best practices that enhance software development and release processes. Facilitate cross-team reviews to streamline practices and analyze feedback from engineering teams to improve productivity tools. Develop and promote standard operating procedures for continuous integration to ensure efficiency.

Develop and execute workload simulation scenarios to assess system behavior under different loads. Analyze simulation results to pinpoint performance issues and identify areas for improvement. Establish benchmarks and metrics to measure workload impacts on reliability and performance. Collaborate with teams to enhance simulation processes that mirror real-world usage patterns, and integrate automated tools into the development cycle for continuous performance evaluation.

What You Bring

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

7+ years with software development in a professional environment

3+ years with building and improving CI/CD pipelines

3+ years with performance testing and optimization

3+ years with technical documentation and architectural guidelines

Experience with performance testing, load testing, or scale testing. This includes working with test infrastructure. It also involves generating representative data and interpreting results to identify regressions and bottlenecks.

Deep experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala.

Hands-on AI fluency, including integrating LLM APIs into production workflows and applying prompt engineering to domain-specific problems.

Experience with cloud infrastructure and developer platforms, including tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, configuration management tools, and major cloud providers.

Experience designing scalable systems and improving developer productivity through tooling and automation.

Experience in building with CI/CD systems, GIT and modern development and release practices.

Solid comprehension of the full software development lifecycle, including build, package, test, release, and quality strategy.

Ability to shift fluidly across projects, priorities, and evolving team structures.

A track record of improving engineering practices such as code review quality, standards, and team efficiency.

Excitement for working with a globally distributed team and comfort in navigating ambiguity.

A deep sense of humor.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets.

The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

€50.900 — €80.500 EUR

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

Generous number of vacation days each year

Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [email protected] We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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