Senior Software Engineer -Golang

Elastic
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentoring","Technical direction","Reliability engineering","Observability","Judgment"]

Build and own the ingestion capabilities that deliver security telemetry into Elastic Security. Design and maintain Beats and host-level collectors in Go, develop and scale managed integrations for third-party security and cloud sources, and improve reliability, performance, and observability of collection at scale. Collaborate across product and security teams, review open-source contributions, and apply LLMs/AI automation to accelerate integration development and reduce operational toil.

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Senior Software Engineer -Golang

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Job Summary

Build and own the ingestion capabilities that deliver security telemetry into Elastic Security. Design and maintain Beats and host-level collectors in Go, develop and scale managed integrations for third-party security and cloud sources, and improve reliability, performance, and observability of collection at scale. Collaborate across product and security teams, review open-source contributions, and apply LLMs/AI automation to accelerate integration development and reduce operational toil.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and maintain Beats data shippers, Filebeat inputs/modules, and host/endpoint collectors (Auditbeat, Winlogbeat, Packetbeat, Osquerybeat) in Go.
  • •Develop and maintain security integration packages for third-party sources (e.g., identity/IdP, EDR/XDR, email security, firewalls, cloud security, threat intel, vulnerability management).
  • •Build robust Elastic managed/API-based collection against external vendor and cloud-provider APIs (AWS, Azure, GCP), handling auth, pagination, rate limits, and resilience.
  • •Improve reliability, performance, and observability of collection at scale, owning quality and reducing failing-test and reliability noise.
  • •Review community/partner contributions, mentor engineers, and set technical direction across the ingestion surface while collaborating to prioritize high-impact sources and unblock onboarding.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceFlexible HoursPaid LeaveParental LeaveVolunteer TimeDonation Match

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of software engineering experience building production backend/data systems.
  • •Strong proficiency in Go (or a robust systems language with proven ability to ramp quickly).
  • •Experience integrating with third-party/cloud APIs including authentication, pagination, rate limiting, retries, and handling unreliable upstreams.
  • •Strong understanding of data pipelines/ETL and log/event processing with structured data modeling.
  • •Comfort working in large open-source codebases with strong testing discipline, code review, and public collaboration.
Experience:SecuritySIEMOpen sourceETLData pipelines
Skills:MentoringTechnical directionReliability engineeringObservabilityJudgment
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoElastic/beatsElastic/integrationsBeatsFilebeatInputsModulesAuditbeatWinlogbeatPacketbeatOsquerybeatElastic SecuritySIEMECSIngest pipelinesLLMsAI coding assistantsOAuth2AWSAzure

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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