Staff engineer, information security

5 days ago


Bengaluru, India LinkedIn Full time
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, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a Linked In office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.
About the team:
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 Staff Incident Response Engineer to be an integral part of our Information Security organization. The Incident Response team is responsible for protecting our infrastructure, applications, and, most importantly, our members. This role will be responsible for playing a key role in our security monitoring and incident response team.
The is a Staff Engineer role which comes with years of real world experience in responding and leading incident investigations, developing playbooks, and continually striving to improve processes and response times. Additionally, a successful candidate will help lead continued improvements while mentoring junior team members by acting as a lead during large scale incidents.
Responsibilities:
- Independently triage security alerts and incident reports.
- Investigate incidents using available resources, forensic and threat hunting skills.
- Drive medium to large scale incidents with multiple team members and partner teams to closure and full remediation.
- Conduct host, network, and log analysis in support of incident response investigations
- Enhance our in-house incident response platforms and build new capabilities.
- Participate in daytime on-call activities.
- Work with partner teams including: PR, HR, Legal, Compliance, Investigations, Microsoft CDOC, Engineering, EPE.
- Contribute to improving processes, procedures and technologies used by the team.
- Automate or engineer new solutions to support efficient incident response capabilities.
- Provide feedback to detection engineering team about accuracy and quality of detections
- Provide proactive and accurate data to all stakeholders for internal communication
- Help uplift entire team by providing demonstration of new processes or training on systems
- Support mentoring and technical development of incident response engineers
Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or other related technical and engineering disciplines, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years experience in Information Security, with 5+ years experience in Incident Response or adjacent areas like detection engineering, offensive security, security research, etc. as part of that experience.
- Incident response experience should include:
- Experience with triaging security alerts
- Experience with incident lifecycle and incident handling
- Experience with log analysis
- Experience with SIEM solutions
- Experience with Windows, OSX and Unix operating systems logs
- Experience with Web Server logs.
- Experience with EDR solutions
- Experience with system level analysis - Windows, Linux, and Mac.
- Experience with 2 or more of these areas:
- System Forensics
- Network Forensics
- Cloud Forensics
- SOAR/Security Orchestration
- Threat Intelligence
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Information Security, Cyber Security, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines.
- Technical certifications (SANS, OSCP, etc.)
- Development experience, the ability to understand source code and develop scripts.
- Cloud fundamentals and experience
- Practical threat hunting experience with open source tool chain
- Scripting knowledge to automate repetitive, time consuming and error prone activities using a general purpose scripting language (ex: Python)
- Prior experience with malware analysis
Suggested Skills:
• Incident Response
• SIEM
• Linux
You will Benefit from our Culture:
We 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.
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Linked In is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. For more information on our equal opportunity policy, please visit Opp PWD_9-12-2023.pdf
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