Trust and Safety Investigator - Anti-Automation

Company Description

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.

This position will be hybrid in Linked In's Mountain View campus.

This role is for a Trust and Safety Investigator focused on Anti‑Scraping, who will play a critical role in protecting Linked In’s members as part of the Trust & Safety Investigations team. We’re looking for an individual with experience conducting technical investigations into financially motivated abuse and technical threats, who is accustomed to supporting incident response and working collaboratively across both non‑technical and technical teams.

The ideal candidate will have specialized knowledge on scraping and automation abuse, can independently pull and analyze data for investigations and can produce high‑quality written and analytic products to drive business decisions.

Our Trust Investigators play a key role in protecting Linked In’s members and our platform from outside threats; we are looking for a self‑starter who takes ownership over their work and enjoys being part of a fast‑paced, collaborative team that values results.

• Investigate potential platform abuse by third‑party applications and services
• Produce high‑quality analytic products for review by senior leadership
• Conduct investigations at the direction of counsel with the highest degree of discretion and operational security
• Collaborate with a cross‑functional working group comprising Engineering, Product management and Legal on a daily basis
• Manage security incident response relating to scraping and data exposure incidents
• Organize and effectively track investigations and reports of abuse
• Prioritize and execute work assignments with limited oversight

• BA/BS Degree or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience conducting investigations relating to cybercrime or platform abuse
• Experience writing SQL queries
• Experience interpreting data and behavioral patterns to identify evidence of abuse
• Experience conducting open‑source intelligence investigations

• Experience with basic Python or similar coding language(s)
• Ability to produce high‑quality written work products
• Experience performing packet capture and analysis
• Experience debugging web applications and analyzing HTTP requests
• Experience using Pandas and Jupyter for data analysis
• Experience responding to security incidents
• Experience managing complex, technical investigations
• Experience working with members of cross‑functional teams, including legal counsel

• Cyber Crime Investigations
• SQL
• Adversarial abuse analysis
• AI workflows and automation
• Anti‑scraping

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.

Linked In is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $106,000 to $175,000. 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.

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