Senior Manager, Endpoint Protections

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.