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Senior Offensive Security Engineer – Detection & Adversary Research

AI Summary ✨

Requirements

  • Enjoy uncovering how attackers really think
  • Interested in shaping detections used by organizations worldwide
  • Love building tools that make defenders better

What You'll Be Doing

  • Partnering with detection engineers and researchers to validate logic, challenge assumptions, and uncover evasions
  • Running targeted adversarial tests to explore realistic attacker behaviors and improve detection coverage
  • Creating internal tooling that generates telemetry, mimics attacker techniques, or automates validation workflows
  • Analyzing exploit behavior, payload mechanics, and attacker tradecraft
  • Identifying telemetry gaps or weak signals and collaborating with engineering teams to improve visibility
  • Contributing to purple-team style initiatives by translating offensive findings into durable, production-ready detections
  • Sharing research and insights through Elastic Security Labs, blogs, workshops, or community engagements
  • Keeping up with attacker trends, tools, and evasion techniques to help guide our detection roadmap

Nice to Haves

  • Experience writing or contributing to detections for SIEM, EDR, cloud environments, or related platforms
  • Understanding of the Elastic Security Solution, Elastic’s prebuilt rules, Elastic query languages, or the Elastic Common Schema
  • Experience developing offensive testing frameworks, telemetry generators, or automated detection QA pipelines
  • Contributions to open-source security tools, research publications, technical blog posts, or conference talks
  • Knowledge of RE tools like Ghidra or IDA (useful occasionally, but not a core part of the job)

Perks and Benefits

  • Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
  • Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
  • Generous number of vacation days each year
  • Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
  • Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
  • Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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Elastic

Remote - UK (Remote)

Experience: Senior
Posted: December 18, 2025
Python
security

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