Staff Security Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

This role will be hybrid in LinkedIn’s Mountain View office location.

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. Information Security at LinkedIn is dedicated to protecting and securing business-critical member data and company assets. Our core mission is to empower LinkedIn to create a secure and thriving platform for every member of the global workforce. The Production & Enterprise Security team strives to proactively safeguard our products, applications, cloud environments, and core engineering infrastructure by identifying, assessing, and mitigating security and privacy risks. We are dedicated to protecting our members by conducting security reviews, threat modeling, establishing secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) controls, and building scalable automation to minimize potential risks across the company.



About the Role


As a Staff Security Engineer on the Production & Enterprise Security team, you will strengthen the security posture of LinkedIn's core products, cloud infrastructure, and development workflows — leading threat modeling, designing and implementing secure-by-default frameworks, executing architecture reviews, and building scalable tooling to detect and mitigate application and platform vulnerabilities across the company.



Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) and shift-left security controls across engineering platforms, including automated SAST/DAST scanning, software supply chain security, and CI/CD security guardrails.

• Architect and build secure-by-default frameworks, paved roads, and developer guardrails for cloud infrastructure, microservices, authentication/authorization services, and core application components.

• Build automation and security tooling that continuously identifies, reproduces, and mitigates application and cloud security vulnerabilities at scale; partner with Detection & Response on security logging, telemetry, and incident playbooks.

• Lead threat modeling, architectural design reviews, and risk assessments for complex engineering systems and platforms. Partner with security and engineering teams to embed secure design patterns and risk mitigations into developer tooling and production services.

• Define application and cloud security standards, reference architectures, and policies across product development, API design, data storage, and third-party integrations; drive secure adoption of cloud services and enterprise tools.

• Drive cross-functional architecture and engineering decisions across platform engineering, security engineering, ML/AI teams, and product/DevEx to build developer platforms, AI systems, and infrastructure that are scalable, reliable, and secure by design.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.

• Hands-on experience or working knowledge of web/application security, cloud security risks, or secure development lifecycle practices.

• 5+ years experience in security engineering and in-depth knowledge of application security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, or supply chain security.

• 5+ Experience in various security assessment methodologies such as threat modeling, design reviews, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.

• Experience with programming languages such as Java, GoLang or Python.

• Experience architecting or implementing tooling that detects and mitigates security vulnerabilities.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS and 8+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 7+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 4+ years of relevant work experience.

• 5+ years experience with programming languages such as Java, GoLang or Python.

• Experience securing cloud-native systems, containerized applications, microservice architectures, and modern CI/CD pipelines.

• Working knowledge of modern technology stacks: cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), identity federation (OAuth/OIDC), distributed systems, and SSDLC automation tools.

• Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly on emerging threat vectors and technology stacks.

• Ability to work across teams and communicate concisely and clearly to stakeholders.

• Experience with security research, bug bounty or CTF competitions.

• In-depth expertise in assessing, architecting, and safeguarding AI platforms and solutions.

• Proven track record of challenging existing paradigms and championing continuous enhancement through strategic innovation and novel approaches.

Suggested Skills:

• Product Security

• Security Assessment Methodologies

• Security Architecture

• Technical Leadership

You will Benefit from our Culture

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels.

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $156,000 to $255,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit:

Additional Information

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We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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Workplace Type: HybridCareer Track & Grade: IC4/9Department: Engineering