Senior Manager, Endpoint Protections

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About the role

  • Senior Manager leading Elastic’s endpoint protections team across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Directing engineering, malware defense, machine learning, and cross-platform security delivery.

Responsibilities

  • 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 onboard new engineers
  • Own the roadmap and drive delivery across visibility, prevention engines, performance, efficacy, and stability
  • Work with product managers to define requirements and deliver high-quality features on release timelines
  • Connect endpoint work to broader Elastic Security detection and protection capabilities
  • Direct machine learning work, including model development, training data quality, telemetry features, and broader security ML strategy
  • Drive cross-platform protection parity across Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • Maintain relationships with platform vendors to gain early access to emerging operating system security APIs
  • Support conference presentations and Elastic Security Labs publications
  • Engage customers and partners on protection capabilities
  • Represent Elastic in the endpoint security community

Requirements

  • People-leadership experience managing senior technical individual contributors on a globally distributed team
  • Track record of growing people and delivering results
  • Substantial hands-on experience as a security researcher before moving into leadership
  • Experience analyzing attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
  • Experience building protections that counter adversaries and shipping software to customer machines at scale
  • Hands-on operating system internals knowledge in kernel and user mode
  • Deep Windows expertise; macOS or Linux experience close behind
  • Hands-on reverse engineering and malware analysis experience
  • Ability to read disassembly and assess research findings
  • Ability to anticipate how protections will be evaded and design for resilience
  • Clear communication skills for technical, executive, and non-expert audiences
  • Motivation to thrive in a distributed, autonomous environment
  • Genuine passion for protecting customers from real-world adversaries
  • Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools
  • Ability to rotate across projects, collaborate across functions and teams, and adapt to evolving team structures
  • Prior ownership of an EDR, EPP, or other endpoint security product (bonus)
  • Published vulnerabilities, patents, technical writing, or conference talks (bonus)
  • Experience leading machine learning engineers on security problems (bonus)
  • Experience taking research prototypes through to GA release (bonus)
  • Conference speaking experience, such as Black Hat, DEF CON, CODE BLUE, or Virus Bulletin (bonus)
  • Familiarity with the Elastic Stack, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Security (bonus)

Benefits

  • Base salary compensation with no variable compensation component
  • Eligibility to participate in Elastic's stock program
  • Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
  • Generous number of vacation days each year
  • Matching up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
  • Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects
  • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
  • Competitive pay based on the work performed
  • Accessibility accommodations during the application or recruiting process

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$159,800 - $252,800 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

ElasticSearchLinuxMacOS

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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