Principal Staff Engineer, Information Security

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, is seeking a Principal Staff Engineer for their Information Security team. This is a crucial role in their Security Infrastructure & Systems team, focused on ensuring safe data access across LinkedIn's platform. The position involves re-architecting LinkedIn's security infrastructure stack - a high-profile, high-impact project touching every aspect of their engineering organization.

The role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring expertise in building large-scale security infrastructure and driving consensus across teams. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing solutions that enable LinkedIn to scale its security infrastructure to meet the demands of their rapidly growing user base.

Key focus areas include developing authentication, authorization, secret management, identity development, and cryptography solutions for LinkedIn's data centers. You'll work with distributed systems and microservices, including securing large-scale data systems like Kafka.

The ideal candidate brings extensive security knowledge, proven experience in designing large-scale infrastructure, and strong leadership skills. You'll need 7+ years of industry experience in software development, with expertise in languages like Python, Java, or Golang. Experience with cloud native technologies like Kubernetes is preferred.

This hybrid role offers competitive compensation ($203,000-$333,000/year) and the opportunity to work at LinkedIn's Mountain View office. You'll collaborate with senior technical leaders while coaching talented developers, making a significant impact on LinkedIn's security infrastructure.

If you're passionate about building secure, scalable systems and want to shape the future of professional networking, this role offers an exciting opportunity to work on critical security infrastructure at global scale.