InfoSec - Principal Product Security Engineer

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 Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

We’re always searching for outstanding people who have a real passion for what they do and are masters at their craft! We are looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer to help secure Elastic products that are loved by developers and recognized for innovation and impact across industries.

The InfoSec Product Security team is accountable for the security of all Elastic software and cloud services. We foster customer trust and empower Elastic to weave security into the fabric of our product development and Elastic Cloud platforms. In a globally distributed company, we think differently about achieving critical security and compliance objectives.

Are you passionate about architecting security at scale and empowering hundreds of engineers to ship innovative products safely and quickly? Can you build deep, collaborative partnerships with engineering leaders and high-caliber peers to lead impactful, company-wide security initiatives? Then we should have a conversation!"

What You Will Be Doing

• Act as a principal advisor and trusted partner to Engineering, providing strategic guidance on secure development practices for Elastic products and services
• Develop and integrate guidance, frameworks, and tooling that enables engineers to safely embrace the full potential of AI/ML capabilities in secure software development
• Drive and own cross-functional security initiatives to harden the software supply chain and CI/CD infrastructure to enable developer velocity at scale
• Lead security reviews and assessments to identify weaknesses and provide effective and pragmatic mitigation and remediation strategies
• Mentor and guide engineers, security champions, and others to elevate the organizational security posture and foster a proactive culture of security ownership across Elastic
• Provide leadership and domain expertise in product-related security Incident Response processes

What You Bring 

• Proven expertise in secure product development practices spanning the entire Software Development Lifecycle.
• A strong track record to lead large, cross-cutting projects and manage end-to-end delivery of security initiatives, demonstrating strategic thought, pragmatic execution, and developer empathy.
• Deep technical expertises, including proficiency in programming and scripting languages, enabling you to engage with application code to assess vulnerabilities
• A demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively across diverse teams and collaborators, including providing guidance to leadership and collaborating with engineers on complex security challenges.

Bonus Points

• Experience with any Elastic products (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic Agent, Beats, Elastic Cloud, Logstash, Elastic Security).
• Experience contributing to large open-source projects and engaging with the developer community
• Experience using, applying, and securing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in a software engineering context.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.  

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash