Principal Software Engineer I

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 Core Analysis team at Elastic plays a foundational role within the Security organization by building and maintaining the Entity Store - a centralized system for storing and managing information about entities such as hosts, users, and other critical objects. The entity store serves  key workflows across detection, investigation, and response. The team is responsible for ensuring high-quality, performant access to entity data, enabling richer context, correlation, and insights throughout the security platform. 

As a Principal Engineer on the Core Analysis team, you will play a key role in shaping the architecture and the overall experience of the Entity Store. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers across teams, as well as with product and design partners, to build a resilient, high-scale system used by both internal teams and global customers. Your deep technical expertise and eagerness to solve complex problems will be instrumental in bridging backend infrastructure with user-facing capabilities - helping to deliver impactful products that security practitioners around the world rely on every day.

What you will be doing: 

• Drive architectural decisions across systems and teams, helping shape the long-term technical direction of our products
• Design and build the Entity Store, an infrastructure that powers entity-based analytics across the security solution
• Develop scalable, high-performance systems within the Elastic ecosystem and across cloud-native environments
• Own the performance, observability, and operational health of our services in production
• Write production-grade code in TypeScript
• Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering technical excellence and collaboration across the team
• Maintain and enhance Cloudbeat and its integrations, ensuring efficiency and smooth operation

What you bring along:

• A strong track record of building large-scale, complex software systems
• Ability to operate with a high level of autonomy and initiative
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams or product lines
• A proactive engineer who takes initiative, asks the right questions, and looks for ways to improve both the product and the process
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work in a globally distributed, async-first team
• Programming experience in TypeScript/Node.js

Bonus points: 

• Familiarity with Kibana or Elasticsearch
• Contributions to open source
• Experience programming in Go
• Background working on Cloud-native products

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.

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