This role pays more than
59%
of similar roles. Most pay
$162,000–$217,500
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$199k
versus about
$190k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Elastic
Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
Elastic currently has
240 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 91 roles with salary data.
Principal Software Developer - Security - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch Security team to lead the architecture and design of core features including authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation. The role involves owning security initiatives from architecture to production, developing foundational models for complex features, and optimizing performance within distributed systems. Key responsibilities include implementing cryptographic solutions, ensuring data isolation on shared infrastructure, and managing vulnerabilities in collaboration with InfoSec teams using AI-driven tools. Candidates must possess deep knowledge of Java internals, JVM memory management, and concurrency models while demonstrating expertise in RBAC/ABAC models, token validation pipelines, and edge identity protocols like OAuth 2.0 and SAML. The role addresses the technical challenge of providing high-performance security for a distributed data store, requiring skills in zero-trust transport, partition tolerance, and cluster state propagation within a search engine environment.
What does a Software Developer earn?
Median $151475 from 90 postings across 16 companies.