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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.\nJoin us to transform the way the world works.\n At LinkedIn, 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 LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.\nThis role will be hybrid in LInkedIn’s Mountain View office location.\nAbout the team\nLinkedIn'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. Information Security at LinkedIn is dedicated to protecting and securing business-critical member data and company assets. Our core mission is to empower LinkedIn to create a secure and thriving platform for every member of the global workforce. The Enterprise & Identity Security team strives to proactively safeguard our corporate identity and infrastructure against external and internal threats and bad actors. You will strive to proactively safeguard our corporate infrastructure and digital assets by identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risks across cloud/SaaS environments, identity systems, endpoints, and essential business workflows. You will operate at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, identity management, software development, and mission-critical security workflows.\nResponsibilities:\nLead the architecture, design, and evolution of enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms and services, enabling secure and scalable access across the organization.\n\nEngineer and deliver new identity capabilities that improve security, user experience, automation, and operational efficiency.\n\nDrive modernization initiatives by re-architecting legacy identity systems into resilient, cloud-ready, and highly scalable platforms.\n\nDesign solutions that address performance, reliability, scalability, and availability challenges across identity infrastructure.\n\nDefine and execute the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for identity platforms, aligning with business growth and security objectives.\n\nPartner closely with Security, Infrastructure, Product, and Engineering teams to integrate identity services into enterprise applications and platforms.\n\nEstablish engineering best practices, architectural standards, and governance models for identity systems and services.\n\nLead complex technical initiatives from concept through implementation, influencing cross-functional stakeholders and driving execution at scale.\n\nEvaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve identity architecture and platform capabilities.\n\nMentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence and a culture of innovation within the organization.\n\nBuild platforms and services that support Zero Trust principles, strong authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management.\n\nEnsure identity systems are designed to meet compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements while maintaining a seamless user experience.\n\nAssess new and existing applications and system deployments for vulnerabilities and design flaws, and prioritize remediation efforts based on risk.\n\nDevise and bolster defenses through secure-by-default frameworks, architectures, and processes.\n\nMaintain and build improvements to systems supporting supply chain assurance.\n\nEvaluate new products and technologies, including potential acquisitions.\n\nRespond to external vulnerability researcher inquiries and vulnerability reports.\n\nEducate and advocate for security improvement throughout the LinkedIn ecosystem through mentorship and coaching.\n\n Basic Qualifications:\nBA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.\n\n5+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management, Active Directory, workforce identity lifecycle management, role based access, authentication, authorization, and Single Sign-On (SSO)\n\n5+ years experience and in-depth knowledge of application security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, supply chain security and mobile security.\n\n5+ years experience in various security assessment methodologies such as threat modeling, design reviews, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.\n\nExperience with programming languages such as Java, GoLang or Python\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience designing, building, and modernizing enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms (such as Microsoft Entra ID), including developing new capabilities, re-architecting legacy systems, and driving large-scale identity transformations.\n\nProven ability to solve scalability, reliability, and performance challenges while creating future-ready identity architectures that support business growth and evolving security requirements.\n\nDemonstrated success designing long-term identity platform strategies that support rapid organizational growth and future business needs.\n\nExperience with security research, bug bounty and CTF competitions\n\nExperience with codeql, semgrep and GitHub integration workflows\n\nAbility to work across teams and communicate concisely and clearly to stakeholders\n\nSuggested Skills\nTechnical Leadership\n\nArchitectural Mastery\n\nWorkforce Identity and Access Management\n\nEnterprise Security\n\nAdvanced Security Practices\n\nYou will Benefit from our Culture\nWe 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.\nThe pay range for this role is $156,000 to $255,000. 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.\nThe 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.\n Equal Opportunity Statement\nWe seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.\nLinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.\nIf you need a Reasonable Accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us and describe the specific Accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.\nFill out an Accommodation request here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b660a0327d044969abfd7a4e73d15c36\nReasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:\nDocuments in alternate formats or read aloud to you\nHaving interviews in an accessible location\nBeing accompanied by a service dog\nHaving a sign language interpreter present for the interview\nA request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.\nLinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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