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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 20 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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What Elasticsearch INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Lead Data Analyst, Sales Strategy & Finance” (Data Scientists) in WA: $165k–$165k, median $165k.
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- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 20 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Elasticsearch INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 1 certified filing for “Lead Data Analyst, Sales Strategy & Finance” (Data Scientists) in WA: $165k–$165k, median $165k. Most were filed at wage level III (100%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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About the role
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 Senior Incident Response Analyst at Elastic, you are one of the front-line defenders for ensuring we are delivering safe and secure products and services to our customers, users, and fellow Elasticians. You will be responsible for reviewing and responding to alerts across a wide variety of sources that include multiple cloud providers, CI/CD environments, SaaS services, user workstations, and much more. Elastic is distributed globally by design, and we model our response practice around that same concept; enabling domain experts to respond with oversight from the Incident Response team and relying on you to provide oversight and guidance to these experts. You’ll also dive in and provide support in identifying what happened, who did it, when, and where to ensure we’ve accurately secured our environment during and after security events. If doing all of this with the Elastic Stack excites you, then we’d love to talk with you!
What You Will Be Doing
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Review and respond to alerts generated from our Elastic Detection Engine and other monitoring sources
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Provide feedback to the Threat Detection team to improve the quality of detections by identifying false positives, enrichment opportunities, and automated response possibilities
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Conduct analysis on SIEM and/or endpoint logs during complex investigations
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Develop and document innovative approaches to detect, respond to, and eradicate advanced threats and improve overall time to respond
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Identify additional integration points that would aid in event enrichment and enable automated response activities
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Gather additional context for security events
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Identify the root cause of events and collaborate with teams to remediate any identified control gaps or failures
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Oversee and coordinate response activities that span multiple teams and products to ensure comprehensive remediation and sufficient mitigation of any identified gaps in security posture
What You Bring
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At least 3 years of experience related to security operations / incident response in a complex, global environment. SaaS and cloud experience is a plus.
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Demonstrated ability to solve complex IT and security problems through log and system analysis (Incident Response, SRE, System Administration). If you’ve done this with the help of the Elastic Stack, even better!
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Demonstrated ability to think innovatively about solving critical security problems; Experience or a desire to optimize processes via AI/ML would be a plus.
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Experience coordinating response activities to resolve IT and security-related problems with the right people in a timely manner.
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Strong communication skills, with the ability to make sound decisions with limited information, and embrace challenging the status quo.
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Are eligible to work in DoD Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments
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Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York
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