Staff Threat Intelligence Manager
Job details
- Work type
- Remote
- Compensation
- $140,400 - $372,300/yr
- Posted
- Apr 21, 2026
- Apply on
- github.careers
About this role
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!
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
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
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 Leadership Principles:
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
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: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!