Security Solution Engineering Productivity Software Engineer
Posted 5 Oct 2026
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- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyComputer Science (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
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.