Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise & Third-Party Risk

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 212,000; Full time

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Job summary

LinkedIn’s Mountain View hybrid role focuses on strengthening security posture by identifying and mitigating risks from third-party technologies, services, and integrations. Lead security assessments and provide architectural guidance across development lifecycles.

Strong collaboration with engineering and product teams is essential. The ideal candidate will excel at threat modeling, security architecture, and automation, with hands-on work in software development for security tooling and

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related field, or equivalent technical experience.
• 2+ years of experience in security engineering or a related technical security discipline.
• 2+ years of experience with security assessment methodologies such as threat modeling, architecture/design reviews, penetration testing, or vulnerability assessment.
• 2+ years of experience evaluating security architecture for modern applications, SaaS services, cloud infrastructure, APIs, or other complex technology environments.
• 2+ years of experience in areas including application security, cloud security, IAM, infrastructure security, data protection, or software supply-chain security.
• Experience with programming or scripting languages such as Java, Go, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical security assessments of complex third-party technologies, including SaaS, cloud services, APIs, AI/ML services, developer platforms, and infrastructure providers.
• Provide architectural guidance and security consultation to engineering and non engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Lead technical security assessments of complex and critical platforms, performing end-to-end evaluations that encompass architecture reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing.
• Perform architecture reviews and threat modeling to identify trust boundaries, attack paths, data exposure, identity and privilege risks, and other security weaknesses.
• Evaluate security architecture and controls across application and cloud security, IAM, data protection, vulnerability management, secure development, incident response, and software supply chain.
• Analyze technical security evidence, identify material security gaps, and define remediation or compensating controls with internal teams and technology providers.
• Develop and deploy security tooling, automated workflows, and standardized processes to enhance operational efficacy and expand the organizational influence of the team.
• Provide clear technical risk assessments and recommendations that enable engineering and business stakeholders to make informed decisions about third-party technologies.
• Improve assessment methodologies, technical security requirements, automation, and reusable security patterns to increase the effectiveness and scalability of third-party security reviews.
• Architect and implement automated security tooling utilizing machine learning and GenAI technologies to optimize review processes, elevate vulnerability identification capabilities, and minimize operational overhead, including hands-on software development for security automation.
• Collaborate with engineering, business, and product teams to proactively enhance security posture through scalable self-service resources, documentation, and readiness frameworks.
• Evaluate, deploy and maintain enterprise security tools like DLP, DSPM, SSPM, EDR, etc.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Communication

Programming

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

LinkedIn’s Mountain View hybrid role focuses on strengthening security posture by identifying and mitigating risks from third-party technologies, services, and integrations. Lead security assessments and provide architectural guidance across development lifecycles.

Strong collaboration with engineering and product teams is essential. The ideal candidate will excel at threat modeling, security architecture, and automation, with hands-on work in software development for security tooling and