Elasticsearch - Software Engineer II - Security, Authentication, JVM

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.

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Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of addressing a growing number of use cases. As the heart of the Elastic Stack, it centrally stores your data for lightning fast search, fine-tuned relevancy, and powerful analytics that scale with ease.

The Elasticsearch Security team is responsible for a range of security features, including Identity and Access management, Auditing, TLS and Certificate Management, and Cryptography.

This role will provide opportunities to learn more about each of these areas of security and to influence how these features are used within Elastic's Cloud, and our Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions.

What You Will Be Doing :

• Working in a hands-on capacity on a successful, high profile Java project used throughout the world for multiple use cases.
• Applying your experience in software development to design and build new security features in Elasticsearch, that strike a balance between usability, performance and security trade-offs.
• Evolving the existing authentication and authorization features of Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack.
• Working with other teams across Elastic to build and expand the foundation of security for Elastic's products.
• Prototyping new ideas and experimenting openly.
• Collaborating in the open with the Elasticsearch team, Elastic Stack users, and others supporting open source projects.
• Working with the community on bugs and performance issues and assisting support engineers with tougher customer issues.

What You Bring Along :

• Experience in software engineering, preferably with a focus on server side Java development.
• You are proficient in Java, conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Strong algorithm implementation and optimization skills.
• An interest in the security area.
• Experience of independently designing and implementing new features.

Bonus Points :

• Experience with the Scala programming language, particularly with respect to security and network use cases.
• Experience in any of the following :
• Authentication protocols such as SAML, OpenID Connect or LDAP.
• TLS and X.509 certificate management.
• Cryptography, including hashing and encryption.
• Awareness of application security fundamentals, and an ability to think through security risks and trade-offs.
• Experience designing, leading and owning cross-functional initiatives.
• You've worked in open source before and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
• You've built things with Elasticsearch before, and understand how distributed systems operate and the limitations and advantages.

Compensation :

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 :

$110,900 - $175,500 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area) is :

$133,200 - $210,700 USD

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.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People :

• 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 a 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.

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