Staff Security Researcher
GitHub, Inc. · UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE, United States
Remote Full-time Posted 4 days ago
About this role
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 seeking a Staff Security Researcher to join the GitHub Security Lab team
We’re looking for someone with deep expertise in code security and an easily verifiable track record of finding critical security vulnerabilities. We’re looking for someone who also has experience of building security tools for developers and has written blog posts and/or presented at conferences about their work. In this role, you will find and report vulnerabilities in open source projects
You will help the maintainers to resolve the issues, for example by suggesting fixes and by helping them to coordinate the disclosure. You will also work with open source maintainers in other ways, such as helping to run workshops for the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund. You will create and publish tools that will help to make open source more secure
You should have an interest in using AI and agentic systems for security research, as that is an area that our team is increasingly focusing on. In the Security Lab, our mission is to empower open source maintainers and developers to ship secure code. As a Staff Security Researcher, you’ll work alongside a globally distributed team to perform elite security research that uncovers and mitigates emerging patterns, empower maintainers and developers with actionable knowledge and pragmatic solutions, and be a thought leader for both the security and the development community
You’ll lead by example—both through your own technical contributions and by mentoring others. You’ll guide our strategy, influence architectural decisions for GitHub’s products, and drive
Apply for this role on GitHub, Inc.’s official careers site.