Staff Threat Intelligence Manager

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!

• 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 

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, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area

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

  • OR Doctorate AND 4+ years experience in security analysis, security research, 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