Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer

Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer

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.

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.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, non‑for‑profit, in‑person university or college.
• 10 years in cybersecurity with a minimum of 7 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 solution.
• Ability to produce detailed technical documentation.

• 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.

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. CoStar Group also invests in your professional…