Principal, Security Specialization

What is The Role:

In today's complex and interconnected digital environment, organizations increasingly rely on Elastic solutions to power their Security, Observability, and Search capabilities. Elastic's versatile and scalable platform enables businesses to strengthen their security postures with SIEM and endpoint protection. Elastic is seeking a Principal Security Specialization to become our elite leader to play a pivotal role in driving the strategic direction, operational excellence, and continuous innovation of Elastic Security solutions within services. This leader sets the global services practice vision. Their role encompasses multiple dimensions, from strategic planning to execution, ensuring the practice remains aligned with services goals, Elastic product roadmap, and industry trends.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Services Offering Development and Ongoing Management:
  • Design and develop clear, value-driven security service offerings that meet customer needs and market demand.
  • Identify high-value use cases for security across industries and create frameworks for their successful implementation.
  • Build, automate, and streamline processes for developing and deploying security solutions.
• Sales and Delivery Support and Quality Control:
  • Drive scalable, ethical, and impactful security solutions to ensure measurable business outcomes and long-term success while supporting the sale and delivery of our most complex engagements.
  • Act as the primary liaison for all security-related endeavors, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration between stakeholders, both internal and external.
  • Monitor and ensure high-quality sales and delivery of all Security engagements.
• Product Integration:
  • Work with Product and Engineering teams to share customer feedback from the field, and drive co-innovation efforts to increase customer value and satisfaction.
  • Understand the product roadmap to ensure service readiness by anticipating and enabling the necessary development and execution ahead of product releases.
• Community Enablement, Engagement, and Development:
  • Ensure excellence by training service team members on the capabilities, limitations, and ethical considerations of Elastic Security to boost confidence and understanding.
  • Participate in the ARB (Architecture Review Board) leadership team to establish and maintain technical guidelines, best practices, and protocols. Contribute to discussions and decision-making within the ARB leadership to shape technical direction.
  • Serve on promotion panels to evaluate candidates for senior-level advancement, ensuring objective and standardized criteria are applied.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of professional services, consulting, or related field.
• Deep expertise in security technologies, frameworks, and applications, with hands-on experience implementing security software and solutions.
• Proven ability to define and execute a global strategy for security adoption, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market opportunities.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and guide cross-functional teams, foster collaboration, and drive innovation.
• Knowledge of security tools, scripting, and related technologies, combined with experience in creating reusable assets and scalable solutions.
• Successfully managed complex projects, including defining timelines, allocating resources, and delivering on-time, high-quality results.
• Excellent ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and build trust with both internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Deep technical expertise in system architecture, including Elasticsearch and Elastic Solutions.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time, as required.

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with AI system architecture, including building autonomous agents, prompt engineering, and evaluation guardrails for security-focused applications.
• Experience designing or implementing AI-powered solutions, including familiarity with agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Experience in building automation tools or frameworks for security solution delivery.
• Familiarity with developing enablement programs, including training workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• A track record of public references or case studies showcasing successful security implementations.
• Certifications in cybersecurity and security technologies, such as CISSP, CISM, Splunk, Crowdstrike, and QRadar solutions.
• Knowledge of ethical security practices and frameworks for responsible implementation.

Compensation:

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 $159,800–$252,800 USD. In select locations, an alternate range may apply. These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary reasonably and in good faith expected for this role at the time of posting. The role is also currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program and includes a company-matched 401k and other benefits.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life.

• 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.
• Up to $2,000 match for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or recruiting process, email [email protected].