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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 Production & Enterprise Security team strives to proactively safeguard our products, applications, cloud environments, and core engineering infrastructure by identifying, assessing, and mitigating security and privacy risks. We are dedicated to protecting our members by conducting security reviews, threat modeling, establishing secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) controls, and building scalable automation to minimize potential risks across the company.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Staff Security Engineer on the Production & Enterprise Security team, you will strengthen the security posture of LinkedIn's core products, cloud infrastructure, and development workflows - leading threat modeling, designing and implementing secure-by-default frameworks, executing architecture reviews, and building scalable tooling to detect and mitigate application and platform vulnerabilities across the company.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn and drive the secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) and shift-left security controls across engineering platforms, including automated SAST/DAST scanning, software supply chain security, and CI/CD security guardrails.\n\nArchitect and build secure-by-default frameworks, paved roads, and developer guardrails for cloud infrastructure, microservices, authentication/authorization services, and core application components.\n\nBuild automation and security tooling that continuously identifies, reproduces, and mitigates application and cloud security vulnerabilities at scale; partner with Detection & Response on security logging, telemetry, and incident playbooks.\n\nLead threat modeling, architectural design reviews, and risk assessments for complex engineering systems and platforms. Partner with security and engineering teams to embed secure design patterns and risk mitigations into developer tooling and production services.\n\nDefine application and cloud security standards, reference architectures, and policies across product development, API design, data storage, and third-party integrations; drive secure adoption of cloud services and enterprise tools.\n\nDrive cross-functional architecture and engineering decisions across platform engineering, security engineering, ML/AI teams, and product/DevEx to build developer platforms, AI systems, and infrastructure that are scalable, reliable, and secure by design.\n\n Basic Qualifications\nBA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.\n\nHands-on experience or working knowledge of web/application security, cloud security risks, or secure development lifecycle practices.\n\n5+ years experience in security engineering and in-depth knowledge of application security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, or supply chain security.\n\n5+ 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\nExperience architecting or implementing tooling that detects and mitigates security vulnerabilities.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBS and 8+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 7+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 4+ years of relevant work experience.\n\n5+ years experience with programming languages such as Java, GoLang or Python.\n\nExperience securing cloud-native systems, containerized applications, microservice architectures, and modern CI/CD pipelines.\n\nWorking knowledge of modern technology stacks: cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), identity federation (OAuth/OIDC), distributed systems, and SSDLC automation tools.\n\nDemonstrated ability to ramp up quickly on emerging threat vectors and technology stacks.\n\nAbility to work across teams and communicate concisely and clearly to stakeholders.\n\nExperience with security research, bug bounty or CTF competitions.\n\nIn-depth expertise in assessing, architecting, and safeguarding AI platforms and solutions.\n\nProven track record of challenging existing paradigms and championing continuous enhancement through strategic innovation and novel approaches.\n\nSuggested Skills:\nProduct Security\n\nSecurity Assessment Methodologies\n\nSecurity Architecture\n\nTechnical Leadership\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.\nLinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $156,000 to $255,000. 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.\nThe total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional 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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