Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer
Job Summary
We are seeking a seasoned Threat Intelligence Engineer to lead our threat intelligence efforts and empower the organization with actionable security insights. You will monitor the threat landscape, leverage automation and AI to optimize intelligence pipelines, and collaborate across teams to proactively defend against security threats. This role serves as a dedicated specialist within our Security Operations department to mature our threat intelligence program.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and analyze the threat landscape relevant to GitLab.
- Administer the Threat Intelligence Platform and collection pipelines.
- Support incident response via malware analysis and actor tracking.
- Execute Purple Team operations to improve defensive capabilities.
- Automate security workflows using Python and AI.
Required Skills
- Expertise with Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP).
- Proficiency in Python scripting and automation.
- Strong OSINT and structured analytical research skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Malware analysis experience (macOS/Linux).
Job Details
### Overview of the role
We're looking for a seasoned Threat Intelligence Engineer to join us as a dedicated Senior Security Engineer, TI. You'll be joining a program established a couple of years ago, with a solid foundation already in place: reporting templates, tooling, feeds, and industry connections built out by the Security Operations team over that time. Your mission will be to provide actionable intelligence that empowers GitLab to make informed, proactive decisions about security. We want to get in front of threats before they materialize - using intelligence to see around corners and anticipate the next attack.
We'll rely on your strong hands-on technical skills to monitor our unique threat landscape, focusing on credible threats to GitLab and the software supply chain. You'll leverage your Python expertise as a force multiplier, expanding our capabilities through automation and AI and maintaining our Threat Intelligence Platform. Additionally, you'll build meaningful relationships with industry peers, sharing intelligence and contributing to the industry as a whole.
### What you’ll do
- Monitor the threat landscape, identifying and analyzing the risks most relevant to GitLab and raising awareness through ad-hoc Flash Reports.
- Administer our Threat Intelligence Platform and continue building out our open source, proprietary and internal intelligence collection pipeline.
- Support incident response through malware analysis and threat actor tracking helping us stay one step ahead of our top threats.
- Collaborate on Purple Team Flash Operations, where emerging threats are turned into collaborative exercises to validate and improve our defensive capabilities.
- Build meaningful relationships with industry peers, sharing intelligence and collaborating on emerging threats.
- Write code, leverage AI, and build automation to improve process efficiencies on the team.
### What you’ll bring
- Proven track record of delivering actionable intelligence that has had a meaningful impact on the security of an organization.
- Experience working with a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) and managing ingested and exported threat feeds.
- Experience researching adversaries using OSINT and structured analytical techniques.
- Ability to automate tasks by writing basic scripts/programs, preferably with Python.
- Excellent and professional communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to articulate complex topics in a clear and concise manner.
- Optional but valuable: experience reverse engineering malware, particularly macOS and Linux malware and malware delivered via code repositories.
- Optional but valuable: public examples of blogs or open-source work related to threat intelligence.