Senior Information Security Engineer - Incident Response

Linkedin3; United States; Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Incident Response Engineer to join our Information Security organization. You will lead investigations, develop playbooks, and mentor junior engineers while coordinating with PR, HR, Legal and other teams.

This senior role emphasizes process improvement, rapid containment, and scalable response across our global infrastructure. Hybrid or remote work is available in the United States, with some office presence in select locations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in Information Security with 3+ years in Incident Response.
• Experience triaging security alerts and handling incidents.
• Strong host, network and log analysis skills; familiarity with playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Independently triage security alerts and incidents.
• Investigate incidents using forensic and threat-hunting methods.
• Lead small to medium incidents with cross‑functional teams to closure.
• Improve incident response platforms and detection quality.
• Participate in on-call activities.

Skills

Information Security

Incident Response

Threat Hunting

Education

BA/BS in Information Security or related

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Job description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.

This role can be remote anywhere in the United States or be hybrid in LinkedIn's Mountain View office location.

About the Team

LinkedIn'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 LinkedIn 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. LinkedIn is looking for a Senior 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 role is a Senior position, coming in with years of real world experience in responding and leading incident investigations, developing playbooks, and continually striving to improve processes and response times. Additionally as a Senior, a successful candidate will help lead the continued improvements, mentor more junior team members, while 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 small to medium scale incidents with multiple team members and partner teams to closure.
• 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 oncall activities.
• Work with partner teams including: PR, HR, Legal, Compliance, Investigations, Microsoft CDOC, Engineering, EPE.
• Work in a team environment to drive large scale incidents to closure and full remediation.
• Contribute to improving processes, procedures and technologies used by the team.
• 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 Information Security, CyberSecurity, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years experience in Information Security, with 3+ years experience in Incident Response 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 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 1 or more of these areas:
• System Forensics
• Network Forensics
• Cloud Forensics
• SOAR/Security Orchestration
• Threat Intelligence

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Information Security, CyberSecurity, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines.
• Developer experience, the ability to understand source code and develop scripts.
• 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

• Information Security
• Incident Response
• Threat Hunting

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. LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $129,000 to $212,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may a