Engineering Manager, Enterprise Security & Identity

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness programs

Competitive compensation

Job summary

LinkedIn’s Mountain View campus is hiring a senior leader to build and lead the Identity Engineering & Enterprise Security function. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers and operators, and drive a modernization of the identity stack from on-prem to cloud with strong reliability and governance.

The role bridges business strategy and IT, partnering with engineering, security, and IT to deliver scalable, secure systems.

Qualifications

• BS or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
• 1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training
• 7+ years of experience in software development, enterprise security, and identity management
• Experience defining strategic roadmaps, managing deliverables, and driving operational excellence for complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
• Experience conducting code and architecture reviews, pressure-test designs, and guide tradeoffs across correctness, performance, scale, and operability
• Experience in cloud infrastructure, IAM, authentication, authorization, workload identity, privileged access, and policy enforcement
• Experience owning security critical production systems where reliability, least privilege, auditability, and operational rigor are essential

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing Identity Engineering & Enterprise Security team, going deep enough technically to set direction while empowering the team to own delivery
• Operate identity infrastructure as a mission-critical platform, with clear reliability goals, safe rollouts, strong observability, healthy on-call, and rigorous incident learning
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of security professionals, software engineers, and ops ensuring the team has clear priorities, measurable goals, effective operating rhythms, and opportunities for career growth
• Lead the identity stack modernization and transformation effort across LinkedIn from on-prem Active Directory to Cloud with high resilience and fault tolerance
• Measure success by safer, faster, and more accountable access: reduced unnecessary privilege, stronger governance, broader coverage, clearer auditability, and less friction for legitimate work
• Build and mature proactive and preventative security controls across corporate systems, cloud environments, identity platforms, endpoints, SaaS applications, and security operations workflow
• Drive cross-functional security initiatives across Engineering, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk, and business teams, aligning security priorities with company objectives, risk tolerance, and operational needs
• Establish and report on meaningful security engineering and operations metrics, including program health, control effectiveness, availability performance, remediation progress, and risk reduction outcomes
• Evaluate and improve security tooling, processes, and controls to reduce systemic risk, increase operational efficiency, and ensure the team is focused on the highest-value security work.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Enterprise Security

Identity Management

Software Engineering

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD security

Job description

LinkedIn’s Mountain View campus is hiring a senior leader to build and lead the Identity Engineering & Enterprise Security function. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers and operators, and drive a modernization of the identity stack from on-prem to cloud with strong reliability and governance.

The role bridges business strategy and IT, partnering with engineering, security, and IT to deliver scalable, secure systems.