Staff Software Engineer Identity and Verifications Team

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.

Team Description:

LinkedIns Trust Verifications team is building the identity and trust infrastructure that helps make LinkedIn a safer and more authentic professional network.

Our systems power verification experiences and trusted identity signals across LinkedIn supporting use cases spanning member identity employment and workplace verification trusted hiring experiences and portable professional identity across partner ecosystems.

The technical problems we solve sit at the intersection of digital identity trust and abuse prevention distributed systems high-scale serving infrastructure partner APIs and member-facing product experiences. We build platforms that integrate with multiple identity providers and verification methods process signals across real-time nearline and offline systems and make trustworthy verification data available safely and reliably across LinkedIn products and external integrations.

About the role:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a system architect and technical anchor for our Trust and Verifications organization.

This role sits at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems identity and trust infrastructure product architecture reliability data and business strategy. You will partner closely with engineering and product leadership to translate ambiguous product and business opportunities into scalable technical strategies and durable platform capabilities.

You will be expected to see beyond an individual service or project: understand how systems interact across organizational boundaries identify where common abstractions and platform investments are needed and make architectural decisions that allow the organization to move faster over time.

The ideal candidate combines deep backend and distributed-systems expertise with strong product judgment. You can move fluidly between business goals product requirements APIs data models storage systems distributed workflows operational characteristics and measurable outcomes.

You bring a high technical bar meticulous attention to detail strong ownership intellectual curiosity and a solutions-oriented mindset. You proactively identify risks failure modes and edge cases; communicate clearly when trade-offs exist; and help teams converge on pragmatic architectures that are scalable reliable secure and evolvable.

Responsibilities

• Own Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define the technical strategy and architecture for a major product or platform area. Make long-term architectural decisions around system boundaries APIs data models modularity scalability extensibility security and reliability.

• Translate Product Strategy into Systems: Work closely with product and engineering leadership to understand business goals and translate them into scalable technical capabilities. Recognize when an individual product requirement should become a reusable platform primitive rather than a one-off implementation.

• Design Large-Scale Distributed Systems: Architect complex distributed systems spanning synchronous APIs asynchronous workflows messaging and event-driven architectures caching relational and non-relational storage and distributed state management.

• Build for Trust & Integrity: Design systems where correctness data integrity security privacy and abuse resistance are first-class architectural considerations. Think deeply about state transitions data provenance consistency authorization failure handling and edge cases.

• Design for Reliability & Operational Excellence: Build systems that are observable resilient recoverable and easy to operate. Proactively identify failure modes capacity risks dependency failures data consistency issues and operational edge cases before they become production incidents.

• Connect Architecture to Metrics: Define the engineering product and operational metrics required to understand whether a system is succeeding. Ensure architectures include the telemetry and observability needed to measure reliability performance adoption conversion quality and business impact.

• Navigate Ambiguity: Take loosely defined or cross-cutting problems and create clarity. Ask the questions that expose hidden assumptions identify technical and product trade-offs and help teams converge on a clear strategy.

• Lead Across Organizational Boundaries & Raise the Engineering Bar: Set a high standard for system design implementation quality testing code review observability and operational readiness. Identify systemic engineering weaknesses and drive investments that improve the organization as a whole.

• Remain Hands-On: Stay sufficiently close to implementation to validate architecture through code prototypes design reviews debugging and critical-path development.

• Multiply Other Engineers: Mentor senior engineers create clear technical ownership boundaries lead design and RFC reviews and help other engineers develop stronger system-design and technical-leadership skills.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

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

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

• 4 years programming experience in object-oriented programming languages such as Python Java JavaScript C/C C# Objective-C or Ruby. 

Preferred Qualifications

• BS and 8 years of relevant experience MS and 7 years of relevant experience or PhD and 4 years of relevant experience.

• Demonstrated experience owning the architecture of large-scale distributed systems serving high-volume business-critical workloads.

• Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals including consistency availability idempotency retries distributed state failure recovery and asynchronous system design.

• Strong experience with relational and non-relational storage systems including data modeling indexing consistency models scaling strategies and operational trade-offs.

• Proven experience designing event-driven and message-streaming architectures and systems spanning online nearline streaming and offline processing.

• Strong experience designing APIs and platform abstractions consumed by multiple products engineering teams or external partners.

• Experience building highly reliable systems with strong practices around observability SLOs capacity management dependency resilience failure isolation and automated recovery.

• Strong product judgement analytical and metrics orientation with experience connecting infrastructure and system metrics to product customer or business outcomes.

• Proven ability to take ambiguous cross-functional business problems and convert them into clear technical strategies and multi-quarter architectural roadmaps.

• Experience authoring technical strategy documents and RFCs and driving architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior engineers product leaders and engineering leadership across organizational boundaries.

• Experience with digital identity trust security privacy fraud and abuse prevention API platforms or other high-integrity systems is a strong plus.

Core Skills for Success

• Technical Leadership 

• Architectural Mastery 

• Ops Excellence Code Review and Quality Assurance 

• Meticulous Risk Analysis & Edge-Case Identification around Trust & Safety

• Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing 

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 $156000 - $255000. 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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We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race color religion creed gender national origin age disability veteran status marital status pregnancy sex gender expression or identity sexual orientation citizenship or any other legally protected class.

LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

If you need a Reasonable Accommodation to search for a job opening apply for a position or participate in the interview process connect with us and describe the specific Accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Fill out an Accommodation request here: accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However non-disability related requests such as following up on an application will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn or (c) consistent with LinkedIns legal duty to furnish information.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement

As a federal contractor LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: Data Privacy Notice and Compliance Posters for Job Candidates 

Please use this link to access documents that provide information about how LinkedIn handles the personal data of employees and job applicants as well as the E-Verify Participation Notice and the Department of Justice Immigrant and Employee Rights Section Right to Work posters: Work :

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