Software Engineering Manager, Service Infrastructure

This role will be based in Mountain View.

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.

Were looking for an Engineering Manager to lead two high-impact infrastructure teams shaping the future of service connectivity at LinkedIn. This role spans LinkedIns next-generation service discovery and control plane initiatives alongside LinkedIns standard framework for service discovery and client-side load balancing which dynamically routes traffic across microservices and steers requests away from unhealthy hosts based on request metrics. Youll lead teams working on foundational service infrastructure across service mesh discovery load balancing dark clusters and core reliability primitives - driving platforms that sit on the critical path of availability resilience and safe service evolution across LinkedIns distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

• Lead coach and manage core team of engineers working on building the infrastructure.

• Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap for the team and company.

• Have the ability to dive deep into technical discussions to challenge the status quo and steer the team in the right direction/to push the envelope.

• Communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across engineering and business leadership.

• Help the team realize their potential by setting clear expectations openly evaluating performance upholding accountability and providing challenges to stretch their skills.

• Drive a culture of operational excellence. Lead the team into defining performance goals metrics and building the infrastructure and tooling necessary to maintain a high quality bar and detect issues in real time.

• Create an inclusive work environment that fosters autonomy transparency innovation and learning while holding a high bar for quality.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.

• 1 year(s) of management experience or 1 year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training

• 5 years of industry experience in software design development and large-scale software engineering

• Experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java C Python Go or Rust.

• Hands on experience developing distributed systems databases large scale data systems and/or Backend APIs

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline

• 2 years of hands-on software engineering/technical management and people management experience

• 7 years industry experience in software design development and algorithm related solutions.

• 5 years programming experience in languages such as Java C Python Go or Rust.

• Experience in architecting building and running large-scale distributed systems

• Experience with industry opensource 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

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The pay range for this role is $200000 - $268000 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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Employment Type :

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