Sr. Director, Software Engineering - Product Platform & 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.

Job Description 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.About the Team and Role The Product Platform & Infrastructure team builds the platforms that power the Linked In app, , and all product feature development for 1 billion+ professionals globally. The team is reimagining how our products are built for performance, reliability, and delight while building agentic workflows for end-to-end product development.

One of the major platforms the team builds is Linked In’s server-driven UI (SDUI) platform, which enables product teams to build and deliver experiences across Web, iOS, and Android through a shared development model. We build the frameworks, components, APIs, tools, and AI orchestration that connect product ideas to the experiences our members and customers use every day. Our success depends on how effectively product teams can create high-quality experiences on the platform to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.

We are looking for an engineering leader to drive the platform’s technical vision, strategy, adoption, and execution. You should understand the product stack from UI components, interaction patterns, and client rendering to frontend APIs and backend services – and care deeply about the people building and using our products. You will work closely with engineering, product, and design leaders to evolve our SDUI platform, complete platform migrations, and make it easier for teams to build great experiences independently.

You will build industry-leading agentic development capabilities to enable anyone to go from idea to a product deployed to 1 billion+ member scale with unprecedented speed and stability.

Roles and Responsibilities Own the vision, technical strategy, and execution of Linked In’s SDUI platform for building product experiences across Web, iOS, and Android.

Manage a customer-first platform organization that understands product teams’ needs, works closely with them, and takes responsibility for removing friction.

Partner with product and design leaders to translate experience requirements into reusable platform capabilities, balancing consistency with flexibility for different products.

Drive SDUI adoption and migration across Linked In, with clear ownership, milestones, quality standards, and retirement plans for legacy systems.

Improve the full experience of building on the platform, from learning it and creating UI to testing, debugging, experimenting, releasing, and operating products.

Guide architectural decisions across UI frameworks, component systems, client rendering, frontend APIs, and backend integration.

Hold a high bar for the quality of experiences the platform enables, including responsiveness, accessibility, reliability, and appropriate behavior on each client platform.

Measure success through product team adoption and…