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Senior Software Engineer - EDR Workflows - Security
Elasticsearch INC · 🇺🇸 United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- 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. USCIS also records 8 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-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 roles3 certified filings for “Principal Software Engineer I” (Software Developers) in WA: $277k–$299k, median $290k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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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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. USCIS also records 8 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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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 The Security EDR Workflows team is in charge of building core capabilities that power Elastic Defend management experience. Our focus is on delivering policy configuration and management capabilities, Elastic Defend and third party providers response actions as forensics capabilities through OSquery. The team is leading XDR key expansion to our SIEM foundations and enhancing user experience in onboarding and managing our security product. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Security EDR Workflows team, you will help design and build workflows and user-facing capabilities that get to our Elastic Defend agent to protect and respond against security threats. You’ll collaborate closely with other security engineering teams, as well as with product and design, to deliver robust, high-scale features used by security practitioners around the world. What You Will Be Doing • You’ll design and implement features that power Elastic Defend user interface capabilities. • You’ll build and evolve APIs that allow our product to interact with Elastic Defend data. • You’ll contribute to the architecture of Elastic Defend management and response actions framework along with OSquery forensics capabilities. • You’ll develop scalable, high performance systems within the Elastic ecosystem. • You’ll own the reliability, observability and operational health of our features, from design to production. • Write production-grade code in Typescript/Node JS (and potentially other languages) as part of high-quality, well-tested codebase. • You’ll collaborate with other Elastic engineering teams when working on cross-team efforts. • You’ll be helping on engineering standards, tooling and team processes improvements driven by AI usage. • You’ll participate in code reviews, technical design decisions, and ongoing improvements to engineering practices. • You’ll be using AI to supercharge development work. What You Bring • Solid programming experience in Typescript/Node JS and React JS. • Ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end: from clarifying requirements and proposing designs to delivering, monitoring, and iterating in production. • You take advantage of AI for better comprehension of complex problems and quickly ramping up into solutions. • You have an AI powered development mindset. • An initiative-taking mindset: you ask the right questions, don't make assumptions, and look for ways to improve both product and engineering processes. • Solid communication skills and the ability to explain complex and technical topics to both technical and non-technical partners. • Comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches, even asynchronous over different timezones. Bonus Points • Experience and interest in contributing or developing open-source projects • Knowledge of the Elastic stack and solutions • Experience on cybersecurity and forensics. Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company wher