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Senior Security Research Engineer

Elastic · United States

Posted 21 days ago

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This role has been open
21 days
Elastic's roles stay open a median of 32 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Elastic's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Elastic
low
0 stale, 5 reposted of 372 open
Hiring momentum
495 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

As a Senior Security Research Engineer at Elastic, you will be responsible for researching and developing innovative security features for the Elastic Defend solution. Your role involves analyzing emerging threats, building endpoint visibility, writing production-level code in C/C++, reverse engineering malware, and collaborating with a diverse team to enhance security measures across platforms. You will also lead technical initiatives and share your findings through publications and presentations.

Our read on this posting3.8out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
4/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 6+ years of professional experience analyzing attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and building detection methods for real security threats
  • 6+ years of development experience in C, C++, and Python
  • Deep operating system internals knowledge in both kernel and user mode
  • In-depth reverse engineering and malware analysis experience
  • An adversarial instinct for anticipating evasion methods
  • A collaborative mentality and eagerness to learn new skills and technologies

Nice to have

  • Vulnerability research and exploit development experience
  • Red teaming experience or background in building offensive tooling
  • Kernel-mode development experience
  • Ownership or long-term maintenance of an open-source security tool
  • Conference speaking experience or established publication record

What you get

  • Competitive pay based on the work you do
  • Health coverage for you and your family
  • Flexible locations and schedules
  • Generous vacation days
  • Financial donation matching up to $2000
  • Up to 40 hours for volunteer projects

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of the tech stack beyond C/C++ and Python
  • Role involves high responsibility with end-to-end ownership of features
  • The position requires collaboration across multiple time zones
  • No variable compensation component, only base salary and stock options

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Listed by Elastic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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