Staff Information Security Engineer - Detection Engineering

LinkedIn

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$156,000–$255,000/yr

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About the Team:

  • The Detection Engineering team sits at the center of LinkedIn's threat detection ecosystem.
  • We partner closely with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Red and Purple Teams, and other security teams to identify and detect adversary activity across the enterprise.

About the Role:

  • As a Staff Security Engineer, you will define and drive LinkedIn’s detection strategy across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments.
  • You will architect, build, and operate high-signal detection capabilities using modern detections-as-code practices and data-driven effectiveness measures.
  • You will work from adversary TTPs to design resilient detection coverage and validate through purple-team exercises.

Responsibilities:

  • Define detection strategy and roadmap; drive coverage across priority threat scenarios.
  • Design detections-as-code with version control, CI/CD, and staged rollouts.
  • Lead adversary emulation exercises and proactive threat hunting to discover unknown attacker activity.

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