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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
This role will be based in Mountain View, CA. 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.
At Linkedin, our vision as the SecInfra team is to ensure that every resource at LinkedIn is provided a non-repudiable identity that is used for secure inter service communication, every access to data at LinkedIn is safe and all secret material is cryptographically protected. Our mission is to make this security infrastructure intuitive, performant, and secure. We build highly reliable and scalable services and developer-friendly infrastructure that enable engineering teams across the company to create and integrate secure features and proactively protect our members’ data. We are responsible for securing all microservices, nodes and large scale data systems in Linkedin’s ecosystem.
We are looking for a motivated software engineer to join the PKI team to help us realize our vision to ensure that we provide infrastructure that is secured by default and applied everywhere across the Linkedin ecosystem. This team is responsible for ensuring the foundations of trust by establishing trust between nodes, managing identities and their lifecycle, managing CA and its infrastructure and securing the root of trust. This, combined with LinkedIn’s massive scale, is an exciting space to be a part of right now.
The team is at an exciting juncture with a multi-year roadmap focused on building secure and usable authentication and authorization solutions that directly impact the entirety of LinkedIn’s infrastructure. You will be empowered to play a key role in helping us execute on our roadmap and vision. We are looking for an engineer with sound technical acumen and the enthusiasm to learn, grow, and lead.
Responsibilities:
You will design and develop secure, performant, and user intuitive solutions for security infrastructure at LinkedIn’s massive scale that operate 24x7.
You will drive rapid product innovation and delivery while maintaining engineering excellence
You will embrace and champion engineering best practices
You will produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
You will drive continuous self-development through curiosity, learning, and a desire to excel
You will participate in design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards.
You will partner with peers, leads and internal customers to define scope, prioritize and build cross organizational impactful features at a high velocity.
You will mentor other engineers and will help build a fast-growing team.
You will work closely with the open-source community to participate and influence cutting edge open-source projects (e.g., SPIRE, HSM).
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
3+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
3+ years' experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go, Rust, C# and/or other relevant coding languages
Hands on experience developing distributed systems, large-scale systems, databases and/or Backend APIs
Experience in infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline
Preferred Qualifications:
BS and 5+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 4+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 2+ years of relevant work experience
Experience in architecting, building, and running large-scale distributed systems
Experience in infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline and Kubernetes
Prior experience with Security and/or Cryptography strongly preferred, such as secure key management, PKI/CA lifecycle management, TLS/mutual TLS.
Experience with industry, opensource, and/or academic research in technologies such as Kubernetes, SPIFFE, SPIRE, GRPC, cert-manager.
Experience with open-source project management and governance
Knowledge of, or strong interest in learning, Linux runtime security primitives such as secure/measured boot, SELinux, AppArmor, seccomp, and related kernel hardening mechanisms
Knowledge of, or strong interest in learning, hardware
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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