Sr. Software Engineer - Systems Infrastructure

Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Systems Infrastructure

• Full-time
• Workplace Type:
  Hybrid

Linked In is the worlds 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. Were also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture thats built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun where everyone can succeed.

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

At Linked In, 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 Linked In 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 Linked In, 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.

Linked In 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 Graph

QL - 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 Linked In's broader goals.

You will foster Linked In'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 Linked In.

• 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 Linked In 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

• 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

• MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 10+ years of experience in software…