Job Specifications
Company Description
LinkedIn 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.
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.
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 an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Detection Engineering team in the US and to be an integral part of our Information Security organization. The Detection Engineering team is responsible for developing and maintaining threat detection capabilities, security monitoring systems, and detection rules to protect our infrastructure, applications, and, most importantly, our members. This is a key role in supporting and growing our security detection and monitoring capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Leadership and Team Management
Lead and manage the detection engineering team, including hiring, training, and mentoring team members.
Develop and maintain detection engineering policies, procedures, infrastructure, and guidelines.
Coordinate and oversee all activities of the detection engineering team during threat detection development and implementation.
Detection Development and Management
Serve as the primary point of contact for all threat detection development and enhancement initiatives.
Ensure timely development, testing, and deployment of detection rules and monitoring capabilities.
Conduct post-deployment analysis and create detailed reports on detection effectiveness with KPIs, including tuning recommendations and optimization strategies.
Communication and Coordination
Communicate detection development status, updates, metrics and reporting, and capabilities to senior management, stakeholders, and security teams regularly.
Coordinate with internal and external teams, including security operations, defense infrastructure, incident response, and product engineering teams to develop and maintain effective detection capabilities.
Develop and maintain an effective detection engineering communication plan.
Continuous Improvement
Continuously evaluate and improve detection engineering processes, tools, and capabilities.
Conduct and report on regular detection testing and validation exercises to test and refine detection rules and monitoring systems.
Stay current with emerging threats, attack techniques, and detection technologies to enhance the detection engineering program.
Reporting and Documentation
Maintain comprehensive documentation of all detection rules, including development rationale, testing results, and performance metrics.
Prepare and present detection engineering reports and metrics to senior leadership and stakeholders.
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards related to threat detection and monitoring.
Training and Awareness
Develop and deliver detection engineering training programs for team members and other relevant personnel.
Promote security detection awareness and best practices across the organization.
Ensure the detection engineering team is up-to-date with the latest tools, techniques, and procedures.
Budget and Resource Management
Manage the detection engineering budget and allocate resources effectively.
Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and services to enhance the detection engineering program.
Ensure the team has the necessary resources and support to perform their duties effectively.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experienc
About the Company
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..
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