Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer

Job Description

Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.   

As the Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead Engineer, you will shape and mature our CTI capabilities to elevate our global Threat Management team’s capabilities. This team is responsible for detection engineering, alert triage, and incident response with an emphasis on automation. This is a hands-on, strategic, and technical leadership role. You will have the opportunity to influence security strategy, design intelligence-driven processes, and mentor others while driving your own career path in a dynamic environment. We are looking for an innovative and self-driven individual to own responsibility for the team’s threat intelligence maturation and will navigate our threat capabilities through the next major chapters of CoStar’s global growth.

This position can be located in either Arlington, VA or Richmond, VA and is in office Monday -Thursday and work from home on Friday.

Responsibilities

• Define, execute and lead the CTI strategy, aligning intelligence outputs with organizational risk priorities and security operations.
• Transform raw threat data into actionable intelligence for SOC, Detection Engineering, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, and non-security stakeholders.
• Design and implement a scalable CTI platform, integrations, and automation workflows to enhance intelligence collection, enrichment, and processing.
• Conduct detailed research on threat actors, campaigns, malware, and TTPs using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to identify risk and threats specific to the business.
• Partner and collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed intelligence into all aspects of security engineering, risk assessments, and business technology/architecture decision making processes.
• Train and guide junior colleagues on intelligence production, analysis techniques, and operational applications.
• Deliver regular reports and communications for disseminating CTI to drive both security operations.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit, in person, university or college.  
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• 8 years in information technology with a minimum of 5 focused on CTI
• Proven leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across the business
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity threats, attack vectors and trends
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language or strong capabilities in a low-code automation solutions
• Ability to produce detailed technical documentation
  
  

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Experience working in a culturally diverse team, spanning multiple time zones within a global enterprise with multiple verticals
• Experience building and maturing CTI programs from the ground up with a passion for mentoring and growing junior staff
• Significant experience in incident response and detection engineering, i.e. direct experience applying CTI in operations
  
  

What’s In It For You

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.

Our Benefits Package Includes (but Is Not Limited To)

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
  
  

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply.  However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing