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Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub Security Lab

GitHub· Security
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Hybrid (Remote, United States)$121.8k - $323.2kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff-level developer advocate for GitHub Security Lab focused on engaging security researchers, open source maintainers, and enterprise developers; defines vision and strategy for the Security Lab's developer advocacy program; creates technical content, leads community events, and drives awareness of GitHub security tools including CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning, code scanning, Copilot Autofix, AI-powered vulnerability detection, and the GitHub Advisory Database.

Responsibilities

  • Acts as a known subject matter expert of the security research and open source developer communities by meeting with community members, attending security and developer conferences, and engaging on social media; possesses expert knowledge of GitHub's security products and services and their impact on the security ecosystem; anticipates changes in the application security landscape including AI impacts.
  • Builds and maintains a broad network across security researchers, open source maintainers, and enterprise security teams; shares insights, best practices, and technical know-how; maintains thought leadership.
  • Collects feedback from the security community and stakeholders regarding product usage and issues; communicates to product groups to advocate for improvements; builds and manages stakeholder networks to inform priorities.
  • Builds and enhances trust with internal teams regarding security product improvement plans; acts as subject matter expert for internal stakeholders on application security and the security researcher community; engages in retrospective evaluations.
  • Defines, creates, and leads the technical content strategy for the Security Lab—blog posts, tutorials, training courses, videos, CTFs, puzzles, and conference talks; drives engagement across forums, social media, and community channels; represents GitHub Security Lab at conferences and meetups; sets content quality standards and measures impact.
  • Actively seeks feedback and listens to security community needs; designs community member journey and measures engagement; manages Security Lab's social media and public forums; influences and inspires the audience using deep product and stakeholder knowledge.
  • Possesses deep technical expertise in application security, secure code practices, vulnerability research, AI-assisted code analysis, and static analysis; communicates secure AI adoption practices to researchers and developers; shares knowledge at scale.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years experience in community/audience engagement, information technology, software development, or related work OR Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience OR equivalent experience
  • Delivered at least one technical keynote on a security topic at a developer conference with 1,000+ attendees OR delivered a session at a major security conference (Black Hat, DEF CON) OR published regular security/open source content
  • 2+ years of experience in application security, secure code practices, or vulnerability research OR 2+ years in a Developer Advocacy function in those topics OR contributions to open source security projects or tools
  • 4+ years of experience working with Git, GitHub, and software development practices

Skills

Required:community engagementpublic speakingcontent development

Benefits

  • This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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