Endpoint Protections - Senior Security Research Engineer

The Elastic Endpoint Protections team researches, designs, builds, and monitors security detections and preventions in the Elastic’s Endpoint product. We are looking for a Senior Security Research Engineer to research and implement new features that will prevent attackers from compromising and persisting in a user’s environment. You will collaborate with the broader Elastic Security Protections team, a diverse set of security researchers, data scientists, and engineers who lend domain expertise to work with you to solve creative security problems and deliver fantastic user experiences. You will also have the opportunity to contribute directly to Elastic Endpoint product code in collaboration with the dedicated Endpoint development team in the creation and improvement of new security features that are deployed to the end users. What You Will Be Doing: - Work as part of the Security Protections team at Elastic with other software engineers, data scientists, and security researchers - Research and build new endpoint protections by studying state of the art attacker techniques and designing new ways to detect them - Make technical decisions on tradeoffs between efficacy, false positive rate, and performance - Mentor junior engineers and help them grow - Present research at security conferences and contribute back to the security industry - Write code in a collaborative environment with peers in multiple countries and timezones, working across teams to deliver features end to end - Contribute to free and open source Elastic projects used by organizations around the world, solving security problems at scale with our global community of users Check out the full job listing at https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/protections/distributed-amer-distributed-emea/endpoint-protections-senior-security-research-engineer/2530749?lang=en_us#/ for information on what we're looking for in candidates and more about the company!