[Hiring] Senior Manager, Endpoint Protections @Elastic

Role Description

The Elastic Security Endpoint Protections team builds the visibility, prevention, and on-device machine learning capabilities at the core of Elastic Defend, our endpoint and SIEM security solution. We work in kernel and user mode across Windows, macOS, and Linux, against adversaries who study how to defeat what we build. Our work reaches the security community as well as the product, through original research and conference talks. We are looking for a Senior Manager who has done this work personally and can still review a design or write code. You will lead a globally distributed team and set the tone for a group that values candid feedback, collaborative learning, and mentorship.

We believe security is a team sport, and our efficacy is independently verified rather than simply claimed: in recent third-party enterprise protection testing, Elastic Security earned a perfect malware protection score with zero false alarms, the top result in the field. If you are energized by leading world-class engineers and making a measurable dent in how the industry defends the endpoint, we would love to hear from you!

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team.
• Guide senior research engineers across endpoint internals, prevention engineering, and machine learning.
• Coach career development, deliver candid feedback, own the hiring pipeline, and set new engineers up to contribute quickly.
• Own the roadmap and drive delivery.
• Decide where to invest in new visibility and where to deepen existing protection engines.
• Work with product managers to define requirements and land high-quality features on release timelines.
• Connect your team's work to the rest of Elastic Security.
• Invest in joint planning, working relationships, and shared accountability.
• Direct the team's machine learning work.
• Set direction on model development, training data quality, and telemetry features.
• Drive cross-platform protection parity.
• Bring the depth Elastic has on Windows to macOS and Linux.
• Represent the team externally.
• Support your engineers in presenting at conferences and publishing on Elastic Security Labs.

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.
• An adversarial instinct.
• Clear communication skills.
• Motivation to thrive in a distributed, autonomous environment.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools.

Bonus Points

• 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.
• 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.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.