Director, Software Engineering — Automation Platform & Apps

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. 

This role will be based in Mountain View CA.

The Director of Automation Platform & Apps is a senior leadership role within LinkedIns Developer Productivity & Experience organization. This role leads the team responsible for building the platform and tooling that puts AI to work across LinkedIns R&D ecosystem both by deeply integrating industry AI agents with LinkedIns internal systems data and developer workflows and by providing the foundational platform on which all internally developed AI agents are built and operated. The team also develops LinkedIn-specific automation applications that drive productivity at scale across the companys R&D organization.

This is a high-impact high-visibility role at the intersection of developer experience AI tooling and platform engineering shaping how thousands of engineers at LinkedIn collaborate with AI every day.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Define and own the strategy and roadmap for LinkedIns Automation Platform the foundational infrastructure that enables internal teams to build deploy and operate AI agents reliably and at scale.

• Drive the integration of industry AI agents with LinkedIns engineering ecosystem including internal developer tooling data systems APIs and workflows ensuring these agents are LinkedIn-aware and immediately productive.

• Lead the design and development of LinkedIn-specific automation applications that meaningfully accelerate developer productivity across the engineering organization.

• Partner broadly across engineering product and infrastructure teams to understand developer needs and translate them into platform capabilities that are self-service scalable and easy to adopt.

• Establish best practices standards and guardrails for how AI agents interact with LinkedIns production systems ensuring safety reliability and appropriate access controls.

• Act as a role model and coach for engineers and managers by setting clear expectations providing candid feedback and fostering accountability and growth.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to co-develop a long-term vision for AI-powered developer productivity aligned with LinkedIns product and technology strategy.

• Develop and operationalize metrics and dashboards to measure platform adoption developer productivity impact and the effectiveness of automation initiatives.

• Serve as a domain expert by staying current on the rapidly evolving landscape of AI agents developer tooling and automation platforms and applying those insights to LinkedIns strategy.

• Hire develop and retain high-performing engineering leaders and engineers across a range of experience levels.

• Lead complex cross-organizational initiatives by aligning stakeholders managing risk making informed tradeoffs and delivering high-quality outcomes on time.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 7 years in engineering leadership with experience leading platform or developer productivity focused teams

• 5 years of experience building and operating large-scale developer platforms or internal tooling

• 4 years of experience building software that meaningfully reduces developer toil and improves engineering velocity

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on development background in programming or scripting languages such as Python Go Java or TypeScript.

• Experience building platforms or integrations with AI/ML systems LLM-based agents or developer automation tooling.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

• The ability to balance business needs a sense of urgency conflicting constraints and shipping high-quality pragmatic solutions in a fast-moving environment.

• Experience leading large engineering teams of 40.

• Data-driven decision making using developer productivity and platform adoption metrics.

• Pragmatic tradeoff analysis between platform flexibility security and developer experience.

• Cross-org technical leadership and stakeholder alignment.

• Strong engineering management coaching and talent development.

Suggested Skills:

• AI agent integration and orchestration platforms

• Developer productivity tooling and internal platform engineering

• Designing and operating self-service platforms at large scale

• LLM application development and agentic workflow design

• API and ecosystem integration with complex large-scale internal systems

• Observability and health signals for AI-powered developer tooling

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 $209000 to $343000. 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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