Senior Software Engineer - Endpoint Security

Job Description

Elastic is a search company with a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the creators of the Elastic Stack, we help thousands of organizations including Cisco, eBay, Grab, Goldman Sachs, ING, Microsoft, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and many more use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. We have a distributed team of Elasticians across 30+ countries (and counting), and our diverse open source community spans over 100 countries. Learn more at elastic.co

The Endpoint team is looking for an experienced engineer to join us in writing low-level code to detect and prevent advanced security threats across Windows, macOS, and Linux. You will be working with former intelligence community and seasoned security industry engineers with extensive security expertise – including the author of Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel. If you’re an experienced Windows, macOS, and/or Linux system-level engineer, join our Endpoint development team and help protect the world’s data from attackers.

Tech Stack:

• C/C++, Python, x86/x64 assembly
• lldb, gdb, Windbg
• Windows, macOS, and/or Linux kernel development and user space, system level APIs
• git, Jenkins

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop robust kernel and/or system-level code that collects data with minimal impact on system performance.
• Write, code review, and unit test cross platform code in a multi-threaded application.
• Work with our platform team to rapidly integrate new features end-to-end.
• Communicate and document new features with team members and quality assurance engineers.
• Participate in agile planning and scope estimation

Skills and Requirements:

• Live, breathe, and eat operating system kernels and system level APIs
• 10+ years software engineering experience in C/C++ and Python
• Experience debugging with lldb, gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg, or Immunity Debugger
• Networking socket programming and protocol analysis
• Cross platform, system level development

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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
• Double your charitable giving — we match up to 1% of your salary
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.