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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
Target industries with compliance mandates
Financial services, healthcare, and defense contractors sponsor Information Security Engineers at high rates because regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and CMMC create non-negotiable security headcount. These employers budget for sponsorship as a cost of doing business.
Certifications accelerate approval
CISSP, CISM, and CompTIA Security+ strengthen your H-1B petition by demonstrating specialized expertise. USCIS officers reviewing security roles look for credentials that confirm the position genuinely requires theoretical and applied cybersecurity knowledge beyond general IT skills.
Align your degree field precisely
Your degree must be in computer science, cybersecurity, information assurance, or a closely related field. A general IT or business degree creates sponsorship risk. If your degree is adjacent, supplementary coursework or certifications help establish the required educational nexus.
Clarify your specialization in applications
Employers distinguish between network security, cloud security, application security, and GRC roles when evaluating sponsorship. Be specific about your specialization. A focused skill set is easier and less expensive to justify in an H-1B petition than a broadly defined security generalist role.
Ask about the employer's immigration attorney
Established sponsors use dedicated immigration counsel, which signals a functional sponsorship process. During interviews, asking about their attorney or legal support is a reasonable question that also signals you understand how sponsorship works and won't require hand-holding through it.
Factor in clearance requirements early
Some Information Security Engineer roles require security clearances that non-U.S. citizens cannot obtain. Filter your search to roles without clearance requirements from the start. Pursuing roles you're ineligible for wastes time and can damage relationships with otherwise willing sponsors.
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Does an Information Security Engineer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. Information Security Engineer consistently qualifies as a specialty occupation because USCIS recognizes the role as requiring at minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, or a directly related field. Employers should avoid job descriptions that list a degree as preferred rather than required, as that framing weakens the specialty occupation argument and can result in a Request for Evidence.
Which visa types are available to Information Security Engineers seeking U.S. sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common path and applies to all nationalities. Australians can use the E-3, which has no lottery and is easier to obtain. Canadians and Mexicans may qualify under the TN visa if the role aligns with the computer systems analyst category. O-1A is available for engineers with demonstrated exceptional ability, such as published research, major certifications, or leadership in high-profile incident response programs.
How do I find Information Security Engineer roles that sponsor visas?
Migrate Mate lists Information Security Engineer jobs from employers with verified sponsorship history, so you're not applying blind to companies that won't consider visa candidates. Given that many security roles at defense contractors and cleared facilities explicitly exclude non-citizens, filtering for sponsorship-friendly employers before applying saves significant time and avoids discouraging rejections.
Can a cybersecurity bootcamp certificate substitute for a degree in an H-1B petition?
Not on its own. USCIS requires a U.S. bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent for H-1B qualification. A bootcamp certificate isn't equivalent. However, under the three-for-one rule, three years of specialized work experience can substitute for one year of a four-year degree. A two-year associate's degree combined with substantial hands-on security experience may bridge the gap, though this approach carries more petition risk and benefits from experienced immigration counsel.
Do security clearance requirements affect H-1B sponsorship eligibility for this role?
Yes, significantly. Roles requiring a Secret or Top Secret clearance are generally unavailable to non-U.S. citizens and permanent residents, since clearances require U.S. citizenship or, in limited cases, lawful permanent residency. H-1B holders cannot obtain most clearances. Focus your search on roles in the private sector, financial services, healthcare technology, and commercial cloud environments, where clearance requirements are rare and sponsorship rates are high.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Information Security Engineer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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