About LinkedIn
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.
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This location is hybrid in our Mountain View office location.
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 Engineer, Information Security to be an integral part of our Information Security organization.
The InfoSec Business Enablement team is responsible for providing strategic partnership and practical security solutions to safeguard business critical data and company assets. Our mission is to empower and enable our employees to achieve their goals. The team removes friction, simplifies engagement with security teams and offers technical solutions.
As a Staff Engineer, Information Security you will be responsible for securing the SaaS portfolio at LinkedIn. The ideal candidate will have professional experience working on securely configuring SaaS applications while striving to shift the security engagement to the left. You will build strategy and maintain deep relationships with the partner organization, to drive meaningful change and uplift the security posture of LinkedIn with a robust DLP Program.
Responsibilities
Partner with architects, engineers and site reliability engineers across the organization; build threat models, design secure systems, perform security design assessments, paint the overall risk picture, and help find solutions for the risks and vulnerabilities.
Implement security policies, standards and control requirements for enterprise SaaS application
Develop strategy and ensure SaaS applications are configured securely, including user access controls, data encryption, audit logging, and integration with identity management systems
Collaborate with enterprise SaaS application owners and business leaders to develop a cohesive security posture that balances risk and business requirements
Drive the design and implementation of an enterprise wide DLP program
Articulate and communicate risk decisions effectively and drive security initiatives within the partner organization.
Stay up-to-date with emerging threats and provide guidance to partner teams on practical mitigations
Basic Qualifications
BA/BS degree in Information Security, CyberSecurity, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines, or equivalent practical experience
7+ years experience in information security principles; such as threat modeling, security architecture, secure system design, system and network security, big data security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography
3+ years of experience in securing of SaaS applications such as Google Workplace, Confluence, Slack and building out DLP program
3+ years experience with security in cloud environments, Linux deployments, and scripting languages such as Python
Knowledge of endpoint management tools / MDM (SCCM, Jamf, etc)
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in information security, CyberSecurity, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines.
8+ years of industry experience in security
Suggested Skills:
-Java/Golang/Rust/Python
-Technical Leadership
-Corporate Security
-DLP
-SaaS Posture Management
-Cloud Security
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 $147,000 to $240,000 . Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
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