Staff Threat Intelligence Manager

About GitHub

GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is changing the way the world builds secure software, and we want you to help change the way we secure GitHub. GitHub's Threat Intelligence team investigates sophisticated threat activity targeting GitHub and our users. We're looking for an experienced manager to protect GitHub from advanced cyber threats.

In this role you will lead a high impact team of technical threat intelligence analysts that help drive secure outcomes for the Open-Source Software community and beyond. This position plays a critical role in our Security Operations organization, and is peered with incident response, threat detection, red team, and countering abuse functions. You will collaborate closely with industry partners to develop insight into adversary activity, develop and promulgate intelligence reporting and insights, lead strategic projects to harden GitHub and better protect our users, and drive intelligence-informed countermeasures across GitHub.

If you have deep experience championing and operationalizing threat intelligence, and driving strategy development and execution, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence and mission clarity

• Foster clear communication, understanding, and process improvements

• Coach, mentor, manage, and advocate for the career development of the team's ICs; cultivate team and organization morale and culture

• Partner with peers and Security leadership to implement tactical initiatives and strategic projects

• Build and maintain relationships with public and private sector entities to better identify and track threats to GitHub and our users

• Maintain and share threat intelligence knowledge, including threat profiles, activity, and trends that threaten GitHub's customers, employees, and infrastructure

• Communicate security gaps, risks, and other threats to GitHub to our executive leadership team

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in security analysis, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area

• OR Associate's Degree AND 9+ years experience in security analysis,security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area

• OR Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in security analysis, securityresearch, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area

• OR Master's Degree AND 6+ years experience in security analysis, securityresearch, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area

• OR Doctorate AND 4+ years experience in security analysis, securityresearch, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area

• OR equivalent experience

• 2+ years people management experience

• 2+ years of experience conducting threat investigations in high-traffic environments (e.g., large web platforms); demonstrated knowledge of attacker infrastructure, attack vector, and tooling trends, plus strong evidence capture and documentation practices

• 1+ years of experience building tools and automations to support threat intelligence or security investigations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing remote teams

• Proven track record of leading successful projects with Security Operations and Engineering teams

• An existing network of threat intelligence contacts and a high degree of comfort managing information sharing relationships

• Knowledge of Linux and MacOS systems, git, and GitHub, as well as Azure and KQL

• Experience leveraging AI workflows, where appropriate, to drive improved security outcomes

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed

• Ship to learn

• Growth mindset

• Own the outcome

• Better together

• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model

• Coach

• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity

• Generate energy

• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We're also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world's software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We're remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are-because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let's change the world, together.

EEO Statement

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