Staff Engineer, Information Security

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed. Join us to transform the way the world works.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what's best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

About the team: LinkedIn's members entrust us with their information every day and we take their security seriously. Our core value of putting our members first powers all the decisions we make, including how we manage and protect the data of our members and customers. We never stop working to ensure LinkedIn is secure. We follow industry standards and have developed our own best practices to stay ahead of the increasing number of threats facing all Internet services and infrastructure.

LinkedIn is looking for an experienced Staff Incident Response Engineer to be an integral part of our Information Security organization. The Incident Response team is responsible for protecting our infrastructure, applications, and, most importantly, our members. This role will be responsible for playing a key role in our security monitoring and incident response team. The role is a Staff position, coming in with years of real world experience in responding and leading incident investigations, developing playbooks, and continually striving to improve processes and response times. Additionally as a staff, a successful candidate will help lead the continued improvements, mentor more junior team members, while acting as a lead during large scale incidents.

Responsibilities:

• Independently triage security alerts and incident reports.
• Investigate incidents using available resources, forensic and threat hunting skills.
• Drive medium to large scale incidents with multiple team members and partner teams to closure and full remediation.
• Conduct host, network, and log analysis in support of incident response investigations
• Enhance our in-house incident response platforms and build new capabilities.
• Participate in daytime on-call activities.
• Work with partner teams including: PR, HR, Legal, Compliance, Investigations, Microsoft CDOC, Engineering, EPE.
• Contribute to improving processes, procedures and technologies used by the team.
• Automate or engineer new solutions to support efficient incident response capabilities.
• Provide feedback to detection engineering team about accuracy and quality of detections
• Provide proactive and accurate data to all stakeholders for internal communication
• Help uplift entire team by providing demonstration of new processes or training on systems
• Support mentoring and technical development of incident response engineers