Senior Software Engineer - Workload Security

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Security Infrastructure team, focusing on workload security. This role is crucial in ensuring data security, which is core to building trust with LinkedIn's members. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement at their offices in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Security Infrastructure team's vision is to ensure every data access at LinkedIn is safe, with a mission to make security intuitive, performant, and secure. They build highly reliable and scalable services and developer-friendly infrastructure that enable engineering teams to create and integrate secure features and proactively protect member data.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for securing LinkedIn's microservices, big data, and large-scale data systems like Kafka. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the development of security frameworks and controls. The role involves collaborating with teams across the organization to develop large-scale security infrastructure.

The position offers competitive compensation ranging from $121,000 to $198,000 per year, along with the opportunity to work with industry-standard open source infrastructure products like Kubernetes, GRPC, and GraphQL. You'll be part of a team that has pioneered well-known open-source projects including Apache Kafka, Pinot, and others.

Key responsibilities include designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems, participating in code reviews, mentoring other engineers, and creating robust security frameworks. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in system-level programming, Linux kernel security features, and container technologies.

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior engineer passionate about security infrastructure who wants to make a significant impact on protecting data at scale while working with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment.