Senior Software Engineer, Security Integrations, Prompt Engineering

Elastic

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On-site
Location
Canada
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$133,100–$210,600 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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This role $172k
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This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $156,750–$216,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $172k versus about $186k for comparable roles.

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Security Integrations, Prompt Engineering

Senior Software Engineer - Security Integrations - Prompt Engineering joins the Integrations Platform team to build tools that improve developer experience when building integrations and consolidating data. This role involves developing infrastructure, deployment tooling, and AI-driven evaluations to interpret telemetry data into actionable insights. The engineer will lead greenfield initiatives, architect automation strategies using Gen AI, and manage projects from conception to completion while mentoring others. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Python and Go, hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure, and BigQuery for telemetry analysis. Candidates should have a proven ability to run evals for AI systems at scale to ensure output quality. The role focuses on the specific domain of security integrations, involving the parsing of logs and events within security or observability contexts using standards like OpenTelemetry, ECS, or OCSF.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $196000 from 2211 postings across 150 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build tools to improve the developer experience for building, deploying, and understanding integrations.
  • Lead green-field initiatives to shape the future of developer experience for Security Integrations.
  • Architect and drive tooling and automation strategies using Gen AI to solve problems at scale.
  • Manage infrastructure and deployment tooling using Terraform.
  • Build and maintain telemetry pipelines using BigQuery for data analysis.
  • Develop and run evaluations for AI systems to measure output quality and catch regressions.
  • Own projects from initial concept through to final delivery across infrastructure, telemetry, and AI tools.

What we're looking for

  • Experience building and running evals for AI systems at scale to measure output quality and catch regressions.
  • Proficiency in Python and Go programming languages.
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure and deployment.
  • Experience using BigQuery for telemetry and data analysis.
  • Ability to lead projects from inception to completion with autonomy and judgment.
  • Prior experience with the Elastic product suite (preferred).
  • Experience in cybersecurity (preferred).
  • Experience parsing logs and events, ideally with OpenTelemetry, ECS, or OCSF (preferred).

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