Elastic · 1 month ago
InfoSec - Principal Product Security Engineer (AppSec)
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data. They are looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer to help secure their products and services, fostering customer trust and empowering secure product development across the organization.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
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 (or local currency equivalent) 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
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$162MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesIndex VenturesBenchmark
2018-10-04IPO
2018-05-03Secondary Market
2016-07-01Series D· $58M
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