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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

Pay: $198,000 – $326,000 per year
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Listed: 3 days ago

About the role

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA, or Bellevue, WA.

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.

As part of our world-class software engineering team, you will take the lead in building the next-generation infrastructure and platforms for LinkedIn, including but not limited to: service delivery platform, scalable data storage infrastructure, graph infrastructure, analytics platform, streams processing and data pipelines, cutting-edge search platform, best-in-class AI/ML infrastructure, Kubernetes compute infrastructure, media infrastructure, etc. You will work and learn among the best, putting to use your passion for distributed technologies and algorithms, API design and systems design, and your passion for writing code that performs at massive scale.

LinkedIn has pioneered many well-known open-source infrastructure projects including Apache Kafka, Pinot, Azkaban, Samza, Venice, Datahub, Feather, etc. We also work with industry standard open source infrastructure technologies like Kubernetes, GRPC and GraphQL - come join our infrastructure teams and share the knowledge with a broader community while making a real impact within our company.

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the organization. We are looking for a technical lead who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, aligns points of view across teams and makes trade offs to help achieve the goals of individual teams as well as LinkedIn's broader goals.

You will foster LinkedIn's culture and values around transformation, collaboration and results. You will work closely with technical leadership and management within and outside our organization to contribute to building best-in-class core systems infrastructure for LinkedIn.

Responsibilities

Deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale
Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization
Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies
Design products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions
Functioning as the tech-lead for multiple key initiatives, identify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems
Partner closely with teams within the org and customers to execute on the vision for long-term success of our core infrastructure teams
Working closely with the open-source community to participate and influence cutting edge open-source projects.
Keep a platform first approach while designing products/service

Basic Qualifications

BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
5+ years of experience programming in object-oriented languages such as C/C++, Java, Go, Rust, Python, Scala
2+ years of experience as an architect, or technical leadership position
Hands-on experience developing large-scale, distributed systems, and databases

Preferred Qualifications

MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
10+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position
10+ years of experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C/C++, Java, Go, Rust, Python, Scala
5+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
Experience in architecting and designing large-scale distributed systems related to data infrastructure, IaaS, ML/AI infrastructure, storage, graph, Kubernetes, and platforms.

Suggested Skills

Distributed Systems
Technical Leadership
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Systems Infrastructure

Pay and benefits

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $198,000 to $326,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.

About the Company

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.

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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.

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