Information Security Engineer Jobs for OPT Students
Information Security Engineer jobs are among the more OPT-friendly roles in tech: employers filing H-1B petitions for security engineers do so at high rates, and STEM OPT's 24-month extension applies directly to this field. Most roles require a degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
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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. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. This role will be hybrid in LinkedIn's Sunnyvale campus.
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 on-call 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 $125,000 - $206,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you.
- Having interviews in an accessible location.
- Being accompanied by a service dog.
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview.
A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response. LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
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. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. This role will be hybrid in LinkedIn's Sunnyvale campus.
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 on-call 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 $125,000 - $206,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you.
- Having interviews in an accessible location.
- Being accompanied by a service dog.
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview.
A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response. LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as an Information Security Engineer
Lead with your clearance eligibility or certifications
Security clearances are hard to come by. If you hold or can obtain a clearance, say so upfront. Certifications like CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or CEH signal technical credibility and reduce employer hesitation about sponsorship investment.
Target companies with established security teams
Large financial institutions, cloud providers, and defense contractors run mature security programs and have dedicated immigration support. These employers sponsor OPT students far more consistently than early-stage startups with no HR infrastructure.
Demonstrate hands-on experience with specific tools
Generic security knowledge does not stand out. Highlight direct experience with SIEM platforms, vulnerability scanners, or cloud security tooling. Employers sponsoring OPT want engineers who contribute immediately, not candidates who need six months of ramp-up.
Apply before your OPT start date if possible
Starting your job search while still in school gives you more negotiating room. Employers can plan onboarding around your authorized start date, and you avoid the pressure of hunting for roles mid-OPT with a ticking clock.
Research employers' H-1B filing history before applying
Employers who consistently file H-1B petitions for security engineers are your highest-probability targets. USCIS disclosure data shows which companies sponsor this role repeatedly, helping you focus your applications where sponsorship is genuinely on the table.
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Do Information Security Engineer roles qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes. Information Security Engineering falls under CIP codes tied to computer science and cybersecurity, both of which are on the STEM Designated Degree Program List. That makes you eligible for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, giving you up to three years of total work authorization after graduation, provided your employer enrolls in E-Verify.
How do I find Information Security Engineer jobs that sponsor OPT students?
Migrate Mate filters jobs specifically for F-1 OPT and STEM OPT candidates, so you can browse Information Security Engineer roles posted by employers open to work authorization sponsorship. Searching general job boards returns results without any OPT filter, which wastes time on employers who will not sponsor.
Can I work as a contractor or on a third-party placement as an Information Security Engineer on OPT?
OPT requires that your work be directly related to your degree field, but the employment relationship matters too. Third-party staffing arrangements are permitted under OPT, provided the work genuinely matches your degree. However, contract-to-hire through a staffing agency does not qualify as employer-sponsored H-1B support, which affects your path after OPT ends.
What degree fields qualify an F-1 student to work as an Information Security Engineer on OPT?
Computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, electrical engineering, and software engineering degrees all support an OPT authorization for this role. The job duties must be directly related to your field of study. A marketing or business degree, even with security certifications, would not satisfy the degree-relatedness requirement DSOs and USCIS apply to OPT eligibility.
How does the 60-day unemployment limit affect Information Security Engineer job seekers on OPT?
F-1 students on standard OPT may be unemployed for no more than 90 days total; STEM OPT adds another 60 days, for 150 days cumulative. Information Security Engineer roles often have longer hiring cycles due to background checks and technical interview rounds, so starting your search early is important. Gaps beyond the limit jeopardize your F-1 status.
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