Senior Technical Risk & Compliance Analyst

Linked In 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 Linked In, 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 Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Linked In is seeking a Senior Technical Risk & Compliance Engineer to support the end-to-end GRACE lifecycle across Security. Governance, Risk, Automation, Compliance & Engineering (GRACE) helps Linked In build and maintain a secure, scalable, and sustainable compliance environment. We partner across Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Audit, and other teams to translate risk and compliance requirements into controls that can be implemented, monitored, and continuously improved.

In this role, you will independently own defined Security risk and compliance areas, taking them from initial onboarding and risk assessment through control design, implementation partnership, assurance, continuous controls monitoring, and improvement.

You will work closely with Security and Engineering teams to translate security, regulatory, policy, and assurance requirements into actionable control requirements; evaluate how those controls are implemented across systems; identify and drive remediation of gaps; and establish monitoring that provides ongoing visibility into control health.

This role requires a combination of technical depth and risk and compliance expertise. The ideal candidate can understand modern security systems and technical architectures, analyze data and technical artifacts, and translate risk and compliance requirements into practical solutions that scale.

Our goal is to move compliance away from fragmented, point-in-time activities toward a lifecycle where requirements, risks, controls, evidence, and monitoring are connected, enabling compliance to scale with Linked In's technology and business.

• Independently own defined Security areas through the GRACE lifecycle, from initial risk and compliance onboarding through continuous monitoring and improvement.
• Evaluate applicable regulatory, security, policy, customer, and assurance requirements and map them to risks, control objectives, controls, systems, and accountable owners.
• Assess current systems, processes, and existing controls to identify coverage and compliance gaps.
• Translate identified risks and requirements into clear, measurable control objectives and technical control requirements.
• Maintain accurate requirement-to-risk-to-control mappings and supporting documentation in compliance systems of record.

• Partner with Security and Engineering teams to translate control requirements into practical, testable controls within systems and engineering workflows.
• Evaluate system architecture, data flows, configurations, access models, logs, scripts, queries, code, and other technical artifacts to understand how controls address identified risks.
• Review existing control design and implementation and recommend improvements where controls do not sufficiently…