Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager, Core Infrastructure

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.

The LinkedIn Infrastructure Engineering Technical Program Management Group is looking for a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our team which is part of LinkedIns Infrastructure engineering organization. Infrastructure engineering consists of over 2000 engineers who are responsible for infrastructure that runs . The org builds and operates massive-scale systems: physical data centers networking storage compute observability and Data and AI/ML platforms.

The Sr. Staff TPM will drive cutting-edge improvements to our advanced Streams & Storage platforms. They will own and drive these key areas of LinkedIns Core Infra infrastructure and platforms that power all of the major  applications across LinkedIns products serving hundreds of millions of users. Collaborate with Product and Infrastructure Engineering teams across LinkedIn to deliver high-impact cutting-edge solutions. Initiate plan and execute large scale cross-functional and company-wide programs.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end execution of large-scale storage and streaming platform programs from strategy and design through launch and steady-state operations.
• Partner closely with cross functional engineering and product teams to define scope milestones dependencies and success metrics.
• Drive alignment across multiple organizations on technical architecture decisions trade-offs and delivery plans.
• Own program planning and execution artifacts including roadmaps dependency maps risk registers and status reporting.
• Identify manage and mitigate technical operational and delivery risks escalating proactively when needed.
• Lead high-risk launches migrations and cross-region deployments ensuring availability durability and performance SLAs are met.
• Establish and drive operational excellence including incident response coordination postmortems and reliability improvements.
• Track and report on program health using data and metrics enabling informed decision-making at senior leadership levels.
• Influence without authority to resolve conflicts unblock teams and maintain delivery momentum in ambiguous environments.
• Communicate clearly and concisely with executive and senior technical stakeholders translating complex technical details into actionable insights.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• 8 years of technical program management experience.
• 3 years of technical program management experience in large distributed systems.
• Technical Program Management experience in the tech industry
• B.S./B.A. in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience leading teams and technical programs to deliver successful outcomes at the intersection of areas such as Storage/streaming platforms Infrastructure and Hardware.
• Experience working in cloud or hyperscale environments including capacity planning scaling strategies and cost optimization.
• Good understanding of storage or streaming systems (e.g. distributed file/object stores replication pipelines messaging or event-streaming platforms).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals including consistency models durability fault tolerance and performance trade-offs.
• Proven track record of leading teams and programs to deliver successful outcomes. This includes using best practices for scheduling monitoring tracking and executing technical programs as well as initiating planning and executing large scale cross-functional and company-wide critical programs.
• Excellent balance of people organizational and technical skills enabling successful execution in high-ambiguity situations.
• Strong interpersonal and cross-functional communication skills fostering collaboration with Engineers PMs and Executives and able to challenge leadership when necessary.
• Organized with attention to detail and a focus on elevating the TPM Craft to the highest standards.
• Ability to traverse both vertically and horizontally in a large organization balancing tactical and strategic objectives.
• Previous experience working with geographically-distributed teams.
• Experience operating in ambiguous fast-moving environments and making data-driven trade-off decisions

Suggested Skills:

• Cross Functional Collaboration 
• Technical Program Management
• Core Engineering
• Infrastructure
• Storage

Additional Information :

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The pay range for this role is $166000 to $271000. 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.

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