Trust and Safety Investigator
Posted on March 24, 2026 (2 months ago)
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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.
Job Description
We are seeking a Trust Investigator to join our Scaled Investigations Team in Singapore. The role applies investigative tradecraft and case management to uncover and mitigate coordinated, persistent, and high-impact abuse, ensuring a safe and professional experience for LinkedIn members. Responsibilities include conducting anti-abuse investigations, producing intelligence insights to improve Trust systems and the LinkedIn platform, collaborating across Trust teams, and participating in cross-functional initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and resolve investigative cases supported by the Scaled Investigations Team, involving coordinated campaigns, abuse networks, and complex attacks.
- Generate proactive investigative leads and track coordinated threat (CT) activity.
- Produce timely and actionable threat intelligence reports and briefings to inform Trust leadership and drive strategic investments in our defense and our products.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management, incident management, data science, legal, and security operations to ensure shared understanding and guide product strategy.
- Integrate threat intelligence with platform signals to enhance detection capabilities and proactively prevent abuse or harm.
- Stay current on threat actor tactics, techniques, and emerging trends relevant to social media manipulation and abuse.
- Contribute to threat hunting and incident response operations related to coordinated and/or complex attacks, as appropriate.
- Ensure investigation activities align with privacy, legal, and ethical standards.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:Preferred Skills:
- 3+ years of experience with scripting or data analysis tools (SQL or similar) with ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights.
- 3+ years of experience in proactive threat investigations of account/content/behavior abuse in trust & safety, social media, online platform or fintech.
- 2+ years of experience in investigation techniques/tools and digital forensics.
- Bachelor’s Degree in cyber security, criminal justice, computer science, or other related technical disciplines (OR) Diploma Program in Information & Digital Technologies.
- Technical acumen and the ability to translate data and investigative outcomes into actionable insights for Engineering and AI partners as well as senior leadership.
- Experience with conducting proactive threat and fraud hunting against large scale threats.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to inspire and influence across all levels of the organization.
- Experience with working in global teams spanning multiple locations/time zones.
- Experience with working or managing projects that have enterprise-wide impact and/or multi-organization cross functional stakeholders.
- Experience with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and cyber kill chain, and ability to adapt them to social media threats.
- Relevant certifications such as GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI), Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA), or related credentials.
Additional Information
Suggested Skills: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.
- Trust Investigations
- Coordinated/complex fraud investigations
- Platform Abuse Prevention
How to apply
Apply via the LinkedIn job page. Click the "Apply" button on the listing and follow the on-screen instructions. You may be required to sign in or create a LinkedIn account to complete your application.
Application link
Job URL: https://sg.linkedin.com/jobs/view/trust-and-safety-investigator-at-linkedin-4389456208