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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.

The Elastic Security solution helps teams protect, investigate, and respond to threats before damage is done. On the Elastic Search AI Platform — and fueled by advanced analytics with years of data from across your attack surface — it eliminates data silos, automates prevention and detection, and streamlines investigation and response. The Elastic stack is widely used among the security analyst community, and our team is working to improve the user experience and workflows of these analysts.

The team is diverse and distributed, but connected! You will be working remotely with some amazing Elasticians across the USA and Europe. We meet via Zoom, brainstorm in Google docs, discuss in open GitHub issues, and chat on Slack.

• Write and maintain high-quality Typescript code.
• Create visualizations and UI workflows that serve security analytics use cases.
• Create Node.js background tasks that do data searches and manipulations.
• Work on open-source and make SIEM technologies available to a lot of new users.
• Work with our support team to help customers and answer community questions.

• 3+ years of experience with developing and maintaining reasonably sophisticated software projects with high quality and over multiple years.
• Hands-on experience with Node.js, Typescript, React/Angular, GraphQL.
• Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.
• Interest and experience in various types of automated testing.
• Experience with Kibana/Elasticsearch is a plus.

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 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. 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 candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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