InfoSec - Principal Detection Engineer

Overview Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

As a Principal Detection Engineer at Elastic you are helping Elastic deliver safe and secure products and services to our customers, users, and fellow Elasticians. You will be responsible for developing and tuning detections across a wide variety of sources that include multiple cloud providers, CI / CD environments, SaaS services, user workstations, and much more. You’ll partner with teams company-wide to learn about Elastic’s threat landscape and adapt our monitoring as a result. You’ll also help support incident response activities by providing expertise in log analysis during security events. You’ll have access to all the tools in the Elastic Stack and to the folks who build the Elastic Stack to provide feedback and suggestions to make the Elastic Stack better for everyone. If doing all of this with the Elastic Stack excites you, then we’d love to meet you!

What You Will Be Doing

Build detections to identify malicious activity leveraging the Elastic Security solution

Build new detection mechanisms beyond what is provided by Elastic Stack solutions to identify malicious and other potentially undesired activities and behaviors

Document detections and initial response actions as code so that response analysts have a playbook

Continually review and tune existing detections for appropriateness, coverage, and to eliminate noise

Identify additional log sources that would close visibility gaps and work with security engineering to onboard those log sources

Identify areas for workflow automation, context enrichment, and other enhancements to the alerting workflow leveraging our SOAR platform or Elastic Stack native capabilities

Partner with the product team on new features, bug fixes, and detection ideas to