Security Research Engineer II – Threat Research & Detection Engineering

Elastic(21 days ago)

RemoteFull TimeMedior$95,779 - $127,983 (estimated)Security Research

About this role

Elastic is hiring a Security Research Engineer II to join its Threat Research and Detection Engineering (TRaDE) team, which builds and maintains prebuilt detection content for Elastic Security. The role is focused on turning threat research and real-world telemetry into reliable, high-efficacy detections and improving defensive coverage over time. The position operates within Elastic’s cloud-based security and observability platform environment and collaborates with the broader security research community.

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Required Skills

Detection Engineering
Threat Research
Telemetry Analysis
Rule Tuning
Functional Testing
False Positive Analysis
EQL
KQL
SQL
MITRE ATT&CK

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About Elastic

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Elastic is the Search AI company that delivers the Elastic Search AI Platform to help organizations find answers and drive outcomes from their data. Built on Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Kibana, Beats, Logstash), it provides solutions for enterprise search, observability, security (SIEM), and analytics to search, analyze, and visualize logs, metrics, and other data in real time. Available as cloud-hosted and self-managed deployments, Elastic offers APIs, machine learning, vector search, and developer-friendly tools rooted in open-source technology. Customers use Elastic to accelerate time-to-insight, detect and investigate threats, troubleshoot applications, and build rich search experiences.