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Software Engineering Manager, Core Storage

Pay: $175,000 – $287,000 per year
Location: Bellevue, WA
Listed: Today

About the role

This role will be based in 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.

Drive the development of LinkedIn's next-generation, public-cloud-grade blob storage platform. Guide the blob storage team to establish a scalable, durable, secure, and cost-effective storage foundation supporting LinkedIn's online services as well as offline data and AI operations. You will partner with defining the architectural vision and strategic roadmap, cultivate a high-performing engineering team, and collaborate with internal partners across LinkedIn to deliver high throughput, low latency, and scalable automated operations.

Construct an S3-compatible, public-cloud-grade blob storage system designed to support a wide range of LinkedIn workloads, such as Media, Ads, CTR, tracking events, analytics, AI/ML training, checkpointing, and artifact distribution. Streamline integration through seamless client adoption, robust multi-tenancy controls, quota management, and comprehensive observability.

Optimize system performance by balancing throughput, latency, availability, durability, and cost using tailored replication and erasure-coding strategies. Scale capacity seamlessly to exabytes while reducing operational overhead through automated capacity management, self-healing recovery, continuous testing, and proactive rebalancing.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach and manage core team of engineers working on building the infrastructure.
Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap for the team and company.
Have the ability to dive deep into technical discussions to challenge the status quo, and steer the team in the right direction/to push the envelope.
Communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across engineering and business leadership.
Help the team realize their potential by setting clear expectations, openly evaluating performance, upholding accountability, and providing challenges to stretch their skills.
Drive a culture of operational excellence. Lead the team into defining performance goals, metrics and building the infrastructure and tooling necessary to maintain a high quality bar and detect issues in real time.
Create an inclusive work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation and learning, while holding a high bar for quality.
You will provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute critical, large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wide programs.

Basic Qualifications

BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent related experience
1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training
5+ years industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
3+ years experience in large-scale system design and software development
Experience programming in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (like Rust/Python/C++/Scala)

Preferred Qualifications

MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
2+ years of hands-on software engineering/technical management and people management experience
7+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithms related solutions.
5+ years programming experience in languages such as Rust, Java, C++, Python, Go, Scala
5+ years in technical leadership, and contributions to industry, open-source projects or academic research in large-data, parallel or distributed systems.
Experience with public-cloud object storage, multi-tenant infrastructure, databases, remote disk or other large-scale distributed storage systems; familiarity with S3-compatible APIs and customer migrations.
Successful track record of managing teams of engineers to deliver multiple projects on time and with quality
Active involvement in the creation and execution of technical strategies and roadmaps

Suggested Skills

Distributed systems
Storage
Technical Leadership

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 $175,000 - $287,000. 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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From LinkedIn's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 14, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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