Senior Information Security Engineer - Detection Engineering

LinkedIn

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$129,000–$212,000/yr

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About the Team:

  • LinkedIn's Information Security organization protects members, data, and platforms by building resilient security controls and detecting threats early.
  • The Detection Engineering team builds and scales threat detection capabilities, partnering closely with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and other security teams.

About the Role:

  • As a senior individual contributor, you will design, build, and operate high-signal detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments.
  • You will leverage detections-as-code practices, telemetry modeling, and data-driven efficacy measurements to continuously improve detection coverage and quality.

Responsibilities:

  • Implement and tune detection content across SIEM/XDR/EDR and cloud telemetry, measuring precision/recall and building detections-as-code with CI/CD.
  • Proactively hunt for threats, operationalize threat intelligence, and build IR automation for triage, enrichment, and containment.
  • Own telemetry quality for assigned pipelines and participate in on-call for critical detection pipelines and high-severity investigations.

Qualifications:

  • You have a BA/BS degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related field and 3+ years in security, detection engineering, or incident response.
  • You have experience building detection content for SIEM/XDR/EDR and cloud telemetry, and programming for detections/automation.

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