Senior Information Security Engineer - Incident Response

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.

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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. This role may be remote or hybrid. At Linked In, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.

This role can be remote anywhere in the United States or be hybrid in Linked In’s Mountain View office location.

Linked In'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 Linked In 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.

Linked In is looking for a Senior 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 Senior 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 Senior, a successful candidate will help lead the continued improvements, mentor more junior team members, while acting as a lead during large scale incidents.

• Independently triage security alerts and incident reports.
• Investigate incidents using available resources, forensic and threat hunting skills.
• Drive small to medium scale incidents with multiple team members and partner teams to closure.
• 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 oncall activities.
• Work with partner teams including: PR, HR, Legal, Compliance, Investigations, Microsoft CDOC, Engineering, EPE.
• Work in a team environment to drive large scale incidents to closure and full remediation.
• Contribute to improving processes, procedures and technologies used by the team.
• 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

• BA/BS degree in Information Security, Cyber Security, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years experience in Information Security, with…