Senior Manager, Endpoint Protections

The role

You will lead a globally distributed engineering team building visibility, prevention, and machine learning capabilities for Elastic Defend. You will own the roadmap, direct machine learning work, and drive cross-platform protection parity across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team
• Own the roadmap and drive delivery
• Connect the team's work to the rest of Elastic Security
• Direct the team's machine learning work
• Drive cross-platform protection parity
• Represent the team externally at conferences and through research

Required qualifications

• People-leadership experience managing senior technical individual contributors on a globally distributed team
• Substantial hands-on experience as a security researcher
• Operating system internals knowledge in both kernel and user mode
• Hands-on reverse engineering and malware analysis experience
• Clear communication skills
• Motivation to thrive in a distributed, autonomous environment
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools
• Ability to rotate across projects and collaborate across functions

Nice to have

• Prior ownership of an EDR, EPP, or other endpoint security product
• Personal research output: published vulnerabilities, patents, in-depth technical writing, or conference talks
• Experience leading machine learning engineers working on security problems
• Experience partnering with product engineering teams to take research prototypes through to GA release
• Conference speaking experience (e.g., Black Hat, DEF CON, CODE BLUE, Virus Bulletin)
• Familiarity with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana) and Elastic Security

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Match up to $2000 for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
• Eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program

Before you apply

• An export license may be required if you are located in or are a national of Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia

About the company

Elastic, the Search AI Company, provides cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability. The Elastic Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500.