Staff Software Engineer Android

Team Description
You would join the Media Infra org as a Staff Software Engineer on the Media SDK team. Media Infra owns the platform that powers all media uploads and playback at LinkedIn. The Media SDK team builds the client-side SDKs and libraries that enable video image document Live and VC experiences across iOS Android and Web. Sitting at the intersection of infrastructure and product the teams work directly shapes member-facing experiences at scale.

Responsibilities
In this role youll provide technical leadership for the Media SDK shaping how media playback and rendering work across the app. Youll own and evolve core media infrastructureplayer architecture performance reliability and scalabilitywhile driving design decisions that span iOS Android and Web. Youll partner closely with product Media Infra and client teams to unblock complex initiatives set technical direction and raise the bar for media quality and developer velocity. This role offers deep ownership broad impact and the opportunity to influence media architecture end to end at LinkedIn scale.

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 programming experience in programming languages such as Java Kotlin C/C JavaScript Python etc.

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

Suggested Skills

• Deep Android platform expertise (lifecycle threading memory) with strong Kotlin/Java skills.
• Hands-on experience with ExoPlayer / Media3 for high-quality video and audio playback.
• Strong understanding of HLS/DASH streaming buffering ABR and latency tradeoffs.
• Proven ability to design scalable media player architectures (lifecycle pooling background handling).
• Track record of improving media performance and reliability at scale (startup rebuffering stability).
• Experience building reusable Android SDKs or shared libraries used by multiple teams.
• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills using Android tooling and production metrics.
• Staff-level technical leadership: driving design influencing teams and mentoring engineers.

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Employment Type :

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