Fellow, Software Engineering- Infrastructure

Linked In 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.

At Linked In, 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 Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Linked In is seeking a Fellow to provide the highest level of technical leadership for the Infrastructure organization. Fellows at Linked In represent the pinnacle of the individual contributor track — deeply technical visionaries who define the future of their discipline, shape the direction of the company, and drive innovation that influences the broader industry. As a Fellow in Infrastructure, you will set the long‑term technical agenda across the full stack of systems that power Linked In — from physical and compute foundations through distributed services, data platforms, online applications, and AI infrastructure — serving over one billion members globally.

You will be one of the most senior technical voices in an organization spanning all layers of the Infra stack (Physical Infra, Core Infra, Data Infra, Online Infra, AI Infra, and Reliability Infra), and will have company‑wide influence on how Linked In builds, operates, and evolves its infrastructure for the next decade. In this role, you will lead advancements in distributed systems, AI‑first development, and developer productivity, while serving as the technical authority for Linked In’s private cloud infrastructure — driving efficiency, agility, and cost attribution at company scale.

• Define and champion the long‑term technical vision and strategy for Linked In’s Infrastructure organization as a whole, influencing the direction of Linked In’s entire engineering platform.
• Identify and solve the most complex and consequential technical challenges across the infrastructure stack — spanning compute, storage, networking, data pipelines, online serving, and AI infrastructure — at Linked In scale, setting a new bar for what is possible.
• Drive company‑wide architectural decisions spanning service delivery, distributed databases, caching, data processing, AI training and serving infrastructure, and reliability systems, ensuring alignment with Linked In’s multi‑year technology roadmap.
• Establish the technical standards, design principles, and engineering culture that guide the Infrastructure organization and elevate engineering practices across Linked In broadly.
• Drive advancements in developer productivity — shaping the tools, frameworks, and engineering practices that enable Linked In’s thousands of engineers to build, iterate, and ship software faster and more reliably.
• Lead infrastructure initiatives to increase efficiency, fungibility, and agility at hyperscale.
• Lead Linked In’s infrastructure transformation toward AI‑native paradigms — evaluating and adopting transformative technologies that position Linked In’s Infrastructure as an industry leader in building and operating AI‑first infrastructure at scale.
• Collaborate with Distinguished Engineers, Principal Staff Engineers, and executive leadership to align technical direction with business strategy and Linked In’s infrastructure priorities including Operational Excellence, Modernization, and Efficiency.
• Advise Linked In executives on a broad range of technology, strategy, and operational decisions associated with infrastructure at global scale.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and mentor to the most senior technical talent across the organization, elevating the engineering bar company‑wide.
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