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Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.
We are seeking a Principal-level Technical Lead to join LinkedIn's Infrastructure SRE organization. As the technical partner to the organizational leader, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing end-to-end solutions for the platform. The organization encompasses Site Health and Operations, Embedded Infrastructure SRE (supporting Data Infrastructure and Data/AI Platform partners), and Data Automation. The ideal candidate will have proven expertise in these domains, enabling them to design and lead comprehensive solutions that integrate seamlessly across the entire platform.
As a Principal Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a key technical leader and role model within the Infra SRE organization, driving the development of scalable and reliable infrastructure operations solutions powered by AI/ML. With the industry increasingly focused on AI, our efforts are aimed at enhancing productivity by building and deploying AI/ML solutions at scale in a sustainable manner, enabling the industrialization of AI.
In this role, you will mentor team members, set a high standard for technical craftsmanship, and help elevate the team’s capabilities. You will also champion LinkedIn’s Core Values of transformation, collaboration, and results, fostering a culture that aligns with these principles. From time to time you may have to jump in to do hands-on coding and often review PRs from other engineers and guide them towards clean, efficient, bug-free code. You should inspire the team to maintain code hygiene, unit testing, test coverage and other better engineering practices.
You will work closely with partners and customer stakeholders to strategize, design, and lead innovative solutions while taking a hands-on approach to problem-solving. Strong leadership skills and a focus on delivering high-quality solutions are essential for success in this role.
Responsibilities:
We take an engineering-first approach to elevate infrastructure operations and reliability. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be driving the strategy to bring down the total cost of ownership to run and operate our infrastructure.
Build platforms to augment end-to-end reliability and scalability of LinkedIn’s platforms, services, and products and bring actionable operational insights to enable continuous improvement.
You will be defining appropriate Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and managing error budgets to balance reliability with innovation and feature development for infrastructure.
Scale: our data footprint continues to grow exponentially beyond 100s of thousands of servers, multiple exabytes of storage, 10s of trillions of events/messages - arrive at a cohesive strategy and best practices to continue to scale our footprint 10x.
Cloud-based ecosystems are rapidly evolving. In this role, you will be expected to stay up to date with the latest cloud trends, including Kubernetes, serverless technologies, containers, and best practices for managing and optimizing large-scale infrastructure performance and help define our strategy and roadmap to set us up to be competitive and get ahead of the trends.
Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to elevate the engineering organization, actively enhancing craftsmanship at LinkedIn by establishing best practices and strategic approaches.
Influence and lead architecture and design decisions with a strong focus on ensuring Site Up as the top priority
Drive consensus across cross-functional teams within a matrixed organization, fostering alignment and building a cohesive and collaborative team culture.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
10+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
10+ years of experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, Go, C/C++, Rust, Rust, Python
Hands-on experience developing large-scale distributed syst
About the Company
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..
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