Staff Software Engineer Systems and Infrastructure

This role can be based in Mountain View CA San Francisco 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 be charged with building the next-generation infrastructure and platforms for LinkedIn including but not limited to: an application and service delivery platform compute platform massively scalable data storage and replication systems cutting-edge search platform best-in-class AI platform experimentation platform privacy and compliance platform 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 an extreme scale. LinkedIn has already pioneered well-known open-source infrastructure projects like Apache Kafka Pinot Azkaban Samza Venice Datahub Feather etc. We also work with industry standard open source infrastructure products 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.

Responsibilities:

• You will own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.
• You will design implement and optimize the performance of large-scale distributed systems with security and compliance in mind.
• You will Improve the observability and understandability of various systems with a focus on improving developer productivity and system sustenance.
• You will effectively communicate with the team partners and stakeholders.
• You will mentor other engineers define our challenging technical culture and help to build a fast-growing team.
• You will work closely with the open-source community to participate and influence cutting edge open-source projects (e.g. Apache Iceberg).
• You will deliver incremental impact by driving innovation while iteratively building and shipping software at scale.
• You will diagnose technical problems debug in production environments and automate routine tasks.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience.
• 4 years of industry experience in software design development and algorithm related solutions.
• 4 years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java C Python Go Rust C# and/or Functional languages such as Scala or other relevant coding languages
• Hands on experience developing distributed systems large-scale systems databases and/or Backend APIs

Preferred Qualifications

• BS and 8 years of relevant work experience MS and 7 years of relevant work experience or PhD and 4 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in architecting building and running large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with industry open source and/or academic research in technologies such as Hadoop Spark Kubernetes Feather GraphQL GRPC Apache Kafka Pinot Samza or Venice.
• Experience with open-source project management and governance.

Suggested Skills:

• Distributed systems
• Backend Systems Infrastructure
• Java/Golang/Rust/Python

You will Benefit from our Culture:

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The pay range for this role is $170000 - $277000. 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 additional information visit: Information :

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Employment Type :

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