Senior Offensive Security Engineer – Detection & Adversary Research

Elastic(1 month ago)

RemoteFull TimeSenior$151,128 - $201,565 (estimated)Elastic Security (Threat Research and Detection Engineering)

About this role

A Senior Offensive Security Engineer on Elastic’s Threat Research and Detection Engineering (TRaDE) team brings an adversarial perspective to help keep Elastic Security’s prebuilt detections effective against evolving threats. The role focuses on advancing defensive capabilities through focused offensive research, improving telemetry-driven visibility, and informing the detection roadmap. It also involves communicating findings to internal teams and the wider security community to democratize defensive knowledge.

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Required Skills

Offensive Research
Detection Validation
Adversarial Testing
Tooling Development
Reverse Engineering
Telemetry Analysis
Purple Teaming
Threat Research
Community Engagement
SIEM Testing

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.