Senior Manager, Endpoint Protections

Elastic
Spain
Full timeEUR 80,400 - 127,200Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Candid feedback","Communication","Collaboration","Adversarial thinking"]

Lead the Elastic Security Endpoint Protections team, driving visibility, prevention, and on-device machine learning capabilities for Elastic Defend. Manage and mentor senior engineers working across Windows, macOS, and Linux kernel/user modes, own roadmap delivery and cross-platform protection parity, and guide model direction including training data and telemetry. Represent the team externally through research, conference participation, and customer engagement while partnering with product for release-ready features.

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Senior Manager, Endpoint Protections

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Job Summary

Lead the Elastic Security Endpoint Protections team, driving visibility, prevention, and on-device machine learning capabilities for Elastic Defend. Manage and mentor senior engineers working across Windows, macOS, and Linux kernel/user modes, own roadmap delivery and cross-platform protection parity, and guide model direction including training data and telemetry. Represent the team externally through research, conference participation, and customer engagement while partnering with product for release-ready features.
Location: Spain
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, mentor, and grow a globally distributed engineering team, guiding senior engineers across endpoint internals, prevention engineering, and machine learning.
  • •Own the roadmap and drive delivery by deciding where to invest in new visibility and deepen existing protection engines while balancing efficacy, performance, and stability.
  • •Set direction for machine learning work, including model development, training data quality, and telemetry features, aligned with Elastic Security’s broader ML strategy.
  • •Drive cross-platform protection parity across Windows, macOS, and Linux, staying ahead of new hardware architectures and maintaining platform vendor relationships.
  • •Represent the team externally by supporting engineering contributions to conferences and Elastic Security Labs, and engaging with customers and partners on protection capabilities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 80,400 - 127,200
Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeavePaid LeaveVolunteer Time

Key Requirements

  • •People-leadership experience managing senior technical individual contributors on a globally distributed team.
  • •Substantial hands-on security research experience, including analyzing attacker TTPs and building protections shipped into software running on customer machines at scale.
  • •Deep operating system internals knowledge in both kernel and user mode, with strongest Windows depth and macOS or Linux close behind.
  • •Hands-on reverse engineering and malware analysis experience, able to assess disassembly and judge which threats warrant investment.
  • •Clear communication skills for technical and executive audiences, comfortable writing and distilling highly technical work for non-expert stakeholders.
Experience:Endpoint securityMalware analysisMachine learningDistributed teamsSIEMEDR
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCandid feedbackCommunicationCollaborationAdversarial thinking
Tech Stack:Elastic DefendEndpoint securitySIEMWindowsMacOSLinuxKernel modeUser modeMachine learningTelemetryReverse engineeringDisassemblyElastic StackElasticsearchKibana

Company Brief

Elastic
Builds the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) and provides search, observability, and security solutions that enable organizations to search, analyze, and protect data in real time across applications, infrastructure, and enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 2012
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