Sr. Software Engineer, Reliability; Edge Infrastructure

Company Description

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.

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA.

Linked In’s Edge Engineering team builds and operates the infrastructure that resolves, routes, and delivers all traffic between our 1 billion members and the application layer. We do this with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will fill the mission‑critical role of ensuring that our complex, web‑scale systems are healthy, automated, redundant and designed to scale. You will use your background as a strong programmer with generalist operational knowledge to work on building the next generation of edge technologies from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about this unique niche of the edge domain, and will also believe that software automation is a key component to operating large‑scale systems.

• You will function as the technical lead for multiple key initiatives, identify problems & opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems.
• You will own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward‑looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open‑ended problems.
• You will deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale.
• You will design products, services, tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions.
• You will improve the observability and understandability of various systems with a focus on improving developer productivity and system sustenance.
  
  You will effectively communicate with the team, partners and stakeholders to execute on the vision for long‑term success of our core infrastructure teams.
• You will mentor other engineers, provide architectural guidance, define our challenging technical culture, and help to build a fast‑growing team.
• You will work closely with the open‑source community to participate and influence cutting edge open‑source projects.
• You will deliver incremental impact by driving innovation while iteratively building and shipping software at scale.
• You will diagnose technical problems, debug in production environments, and automate routine tasks.

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 5+ years of experience programming in object‑oriented languages such as C/C++, Java, Golang, Rust, Python, Scala.
• 2+ years of experience as an architect, or technical leadership position.

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership position.
• 5+ years of experience with large‑scale distributed systems and client‑server architectures.
• 10+ years of programming experience in an object‑oriented programming language such as Java, C/C++.
• Experience leading by influence, formulating and driving technical strategies across various organizations.
• Experience leading a large organization.
• Ex…