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, drive delivery, and direct machine learning work across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team.
• Own the roadmap and drive delivery.
• Work with product managers to define requirements and land features.
• Connect team work to the rest of Elastic Security.
• Direct the team's machine learning work.
• Drive cross-platform protection parity for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• 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 for technical and executive audiences.
• 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 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
• Match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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 annexed Ukrainian territories.

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.