Senior Security Research Engineer

Elastic
Canada
Full timeCAD 128,300 - 203,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Experience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Adversarial thinking","Autonomy","Communication","Continuous learning"]

Lead security research for Elastic Defend’s Endpoint Protections team, translating emerging attacker techniques into shipped, high-efficacy protections. Build and extend endpoint visibility by instrumenting new event sources across Windows, macOS, and Linux, and write production-ready C/C++ code that runs reliably on millions of endpoints. Reverse engineer malware, review fleet-scale telemetry to reduce false positives and regressions, and help set the team’s technical direction.

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Senior Security Research Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead security research for Elastic Defend’s Endpoint Protections team, translating emerging attacker techniques into shipped, high-efficacy protections. Build and extend endpoint visibility by instrumenting new event sources across Windows, macOS, and Linux, and write production-ready C/C++ code that runs reliably on millions of endpoints. Reverse engineer malware, review fleet-scale telemetry to reduce false positives and regressions, and help set the team’s technical direction.
Location: Canada
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Research emerging attacker techniques and convert them into shipped endpoint protections.
  • •Build and extend endpoint visibility by adding event sources and improving telemetry across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • •Develop performant production code in C/C++ for security-critical execution on millions of endpoints.
  • •Reverse engineer malware and use evasion insights to harden and improve protections.
  • •Review fleet-scale customer telemetry, investigate false positives/regressions, and lead end-to-end efficacy mitigation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 128,300 - 203,000 annually
Perks:RrspHealth InsurancePaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years analyzing attacker TTPs and building detection methods for real security threats.
  • •6+ years of development experience in C, C++, and Python with security-critical code judgment.
  • •Deep operating system internals knowledge in kernel and user mode, with strong Windows focus.
  • •In-depth reverse engineering and malware analysis experience, comfortable with tooling for reading hard binaries.
  • •Collaborative, distributed-team communication and an adversarial mindset for designing resilient protections.
Experience:6+ yearsEndpoint securityMalware analysisReverse engineeringSecurity research
Skills:CollaborationAdversarial thinkingAutonomyCommunicationContinuous learning
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CC++PythonWindowsMacOSLinuxKernelElastic StackElasticsearchKibana

Company Brief

Elastic
Builds the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) and provides search, observability, and security solutions that enable organizations to search, analyze, and protect data in real time across applications, infrastructure, and enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 2012
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