Senior Response Automation Engineer, Elastic
Information Security
$133.1-252.9k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. Eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Job no longer available
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$133.1-252.9k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. Eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3 years of experience related to automation engineering in a complex, global environment. Automation experience focused on security operations / incident response is a plus
- Experience with automating with Security Operations and Response (SOAR) tools or alternative tools supporting similar workflows. Tines experience is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to take complex / manual processes and solve them through automation. If you’ve done this with the help of the Elastic Stack, even better!
- Demonstrated ability to think innovatively about solving critical security problems
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to make sound decisions with limited information, and embrace challenging the status quo
- You are eligible to work in DoD Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments
What the job involves
- As a Senior Response Automation Engineer at Elastic you will work to enhance and maintain the workflows supporting Elastic front-line defenders, assisting the team delivering safe and secure products and services to our customers, users, and fellow Elasticians
- Currently, the Threat Detection and Response Team heavily relies on automation - we have developed many integrations and intelligent workflows to provide alert context, take action automatically, and more
- This has resulted in significant time savings and efficiencies
- Our ability to continue to enhance existing workflows and develop new ones to take us to the next level in our SOC-less journey
- In this role, you will be responsible for understanding, maintaining, and improving threat detection and response processes, working on automations that support alert triage through management of response cases
- Drive the full lifecycle of automation development, from design to maintenance, to significantly advance our threat detection and response capabilities
- Optimize and automate core SOC/IR analyst workflows, focusing on delivering rich alert context and efficient triage processes across all detection sources, including the Elastic Detection Engine
- Establish automated feedback mechanisms that empower the Threat Detection team to continuously refine detections, identify false positives, and uncover new enrichment and automation opportunities
- Build and manage integrations across security tools and platforms to create seamless workflows and enhance data correlation for comprehensive threat detection and response
- Architect and implement automated incident response playbooks for effective containment, eradication, and recovery in various threat scenarios
- Serve as a key automation expert, partnering with security analysts and incident responders to transform manual security operations into highly efficient, automated processes
- Innovate and document best practices for detecting, responding to, and eradicating advanced threats, focusing on reducing overall time to response
- Ensure the integrity and effectiveness of all workflows through rigorous testing and validation
- Collaborate strategically with Threat Detection and Response leadership to identify critical areas for enhancement and execute impactful improvement initiatives
Our take
Organizations are dealing with exploding data volumes increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and the growing expectation tha ttechnology should help act on problems, not just report them. Ai is moving from experimentation into real operations, especially in security and observability where speed and context are critical. So now, both enterprises and governments are looking for simpler, shared platforms that sale easily and reduce complexity rather than add to it.
And Elastic sits at the intersection of these needs with its Search AI Platform that helps organizations turn large amounts of structured and unstructured data into clear insights and actiontions across search, security, and observability. Elastic's strength lies in its open, flexible approach, which breaks down data silos and provides a context people and AI systems need to make daster, better decisions. The goal is straightforward: help teams see what's happening, understand it quickly, and respond confidently.
Recently, the company worked with CISA to deliver a unified, cloud-based SIEM for US federal agencies, this highlights strong trust in Elastic's security and scalability. Alongside this, its AWS Agentic AI Specialization also reflects leadership in making autonomous AI system practical and reliable. Together, these milestones position Elastic well for the future, as organizations increasingly rely on shared platforms and intelligent systems to manage ris, complexity, and growth.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ashutosh Kulkarni
(CEO)Ashutosh joined Elastic in 2021 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2022. Prior to this, he was an EVP and CPO of Enterprise at McAfee, a Senior VP and GM of Web Performance and Web Security at Akamai Technologies, and a Senior VP and GM of Informatica Cloud at Informatica.
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Shay co-founded Elastic in 2012 and has served as the CTO since.
Navam Welihinda
(CFO)Prior to joining Elastic in 2025, Navam was the CFO at Grammarly. He also spent nearly 8 years at HashiCorp as VP of Finance and CFO and was the Head of Finance, Compose at IBM for 1 year.
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