Distinguished Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure Core Infra

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 OR Bellevue WA.

We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to help shape the future of LinkedIns Core Infrastructure platform which provides shared system services within a large-scale private on-premise distributed environment.

This role will focus on building technical strategy and raising the bar across multiple infrastructure domains with particular emphasis on edge/traffic systems and storage while contributing to adjacent areas such as streaming/messaging (e.g. Kafka) fleet management and control planes.

Responsibilities

• You will partner directly with senior engineering leaders to define long-term technical strategy across LinkedIns core infrastructure including networking (edge & traffic) storage and messaging systems

• Lead cross-team and cross-functional initiatives spanning distributed systems traffic engineering storage platforms and event-driven architectures

• You will head cross team/cross functional discussions and drive alignment on technology strategy.

• You will contribute directly to initiatives through a combination of design and implementation activities.

• You will actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.

• You will define the bar for quality and efficiency of software systems while balancing business impact operational impact and cost benefits of design and architectural choices.

• Influence and mentor engineers across the organization raising the bar for systems thinking and technical depth

• Drive alignment across organizations on multi-domain infrastructure architecture balancing scalability reliability and cost

• Help evolve LinkedIns private cloud and fleet infrastructure strategy enabling efficient operation at massive scale

• Foster a culture that values diverse perspectives while navigating complex ambiguous technical decisions

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

• 10 years of relevant work experiencein infrastructure engineering

• Experience leading technical projects with multiple stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field or related discipline (machine learning statistics computer science etc.) or equivalent research experience

• 15 years experience in building infrastructure at scale with at least 5 of those years in a technical leadership position

• Experience building large scale infrastructure and distributed systems

• Deep expertise in at least one of the following domains with working knowledge across others:

  • Networking / Traffic Engineering (edge infrastructure proxies load balancing CDNs)

  • Distributed Storage Systems (object storage block storage large-scale data systems)

• Experience with messaging and streaming systems (e.g. Kafka pub/sub architectures event-driven systems)

• Proven ability to operate across infrastructure domains contributing to areas such as fleet management control planes and private cloud systems

• Experience designing and evolving high-scale on-premise or hybrid cloud infrastructure

• Strong systems-level thinking with the ability to move between domains (e.g. networking - storage - distributed systems)

• Proven track record of leading cross-company high-impact infrastructure initiatives from concept through production at scale

• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction across large organizations

• Experience leading high-impact cross-company initiatives

Suggested Skills

• Infrastructure

• Distributed Systems

• Networking / Traffic Engineering

• Storage Systems

• Technical Leadership

You will Benefit from our Culture

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LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $248000 to $406000. 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 Information :

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