# Senior Manager, Endpoint Protections

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

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.

## 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.

- Own the roadmap and drive delivery. Decide where to invest in new visibility and where to deepen existing protection engines, balancing efficacy, performance, and stability across millions of endpoints.

- Connect your 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.

## What You Bring

- People-leadership experience managing senior technical individual contributors on a globally distributed team.

- Substantial hands-on experience as a security researcher before moving into leadership.

- 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.

- Familiarity with the Elastic Stack and Elastic Security.

## Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

- 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.

- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 for financial donations and service.

- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.

- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

## Skills

### Required
- endpoint security
- machine learning
- operating system internals
- reverse engineering
- malware analysis
- security research
- leadership
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- EDR
- EPP
- endpoint security product
- published vulnerabilities
- patents
- technical writing
- conference talks
- machine learning engineers
- product engineering teams
- GA release
- conference speaking experience
- Elastic Stack
- Elastic Security

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