Senior Software Engineer Systems and Infrastructure

This role will be available in Mountain View or other US office locations. 

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.

Were building the next-generation data infrastructure including storage streams media and analytics platforms. Help us scale LinkedIn infrastructure to handle massive data growth across the LinkedIn ecosystem as we experience dramatic growth in membership and products. Bring your experience in distributed systems and algorithms and a strong systems orientation (multi-threading concurrency scalability performance). You should understand frameworks for caching queuing and distributed data storage and be excited to work on cutting edge open-source systems.  

What Youll Do:  

The ideal candidate will help scale LinkedIns infrastructure to handle massive growth in membership traffic and data as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products with focus in one or more of the areas below:  

Data Infrastructure: A focus on building and supporting large scale systems and tools that enable the generation of insights and data products on all of LinkedIns internal and external data via self-serve computing reporting solutions and interactive querying.  

Search Networks and Analytics: Build and operate the platform that powers all of search at LinkedInresponding to thousands of queries per second with target latencies in tens of milliseconds. The goal is to provide and run in 24/7 production environment a platform that enables search quality engineers to rapidly innovate experiment and improve relevancewhile at the same time remaining constantly available and performant to our users.  

Service: Provide the technical platform for all of LinkedIn Engineering to build services which are the essential unit of development and deployment.  

Content and Community: Deliver the systems and algorithms that generate and serve feeds of professionally relevant activities and content.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:  

B.S. or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience.  

Demonstrated knowledge and experience with object-oriented programming languages.  

Preferred Qualifications:  

2 years of relevant work experience  

Experience building distributed Internet-scale systems 

Experience building and applying frameworks for one or more of the following: caching queuing RPC parallelism and/or distributed knowledge 

Thorough knowledge of multi-threading concurrency and parallel processing technologies 

Experience with industry open-source projects and/or academic research in large-data parallel and distributed systems 

Published work in academic conferences or industry circles 

Suggested Skills:  

Data Structures & Algorithms  

Distributed Systems  

Operating Systems  

Cloud Computing  

Additional Information :

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 $139000 to $229000. 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. For more information visit Opportunity Statement 

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Employment Type :

Full-time