Manager, Information Security - Detection Engineering

Manager, Information Security - Detection Engineering

• Full-time
• Workplace Type:
  Hybrid or Remote

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. 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.

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 an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Detection Engineering team in the US and to be an integral part of our Information Security organization. The Detection Engineering team is responsible for developing and maintaining threat detection capabilities, security monitoring systems, and detection rules to protect our infrastructure, applications, and, most importantly, our members. This is a key role in supporting and growing our security detection and monitoring capabilities.

• Lead and manage the detection engineering team, including hiring, training, and mentoring team members.
• Develop and maintain detection engineering policies, procedures, infrastructure, and guidelines.
• Coordinate and oversee all activities of the detection engineering team during threat detection development and implementation.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all threat detection development and enhancement initiatives.
• Ensure timely development, testing, and deployment of detection rules and monitoring capabilities.
• Conduct post-deployment analysis and create detailed reports on detection effectiveness with KPIs, including tuning recommendations and optimization strategies.

• Communicate detection development status, updates, metrics and reporting, and capabilities to senior management, stakeholders, and security teams regularly.
• Coordinate with internal and external teams, including security operations, defense infrastructure, incident response, and product engineering teams to develop and maintain effective detection capabilities.
• Develop and maintain an effective detection engineering communication plan.
• Continuously evaluate and improve detection engineering processes, tools, and capabilities.
• Conduct and report on regular detection testing and validation exercises to test and refine detection rules and monitoring systems.
• Stay current with emerging threats, attack techniques, and detection technologies to enhance the detection engineering program.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of all detection rules, including development rationale, testing results, and performance metrics.
• Prepare and present detection engineering reports and metrics to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards related to threat detection and monitoring.

• Develop and deliver detection…