Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Productivity Engineering

Sr. Staff Software Engineer

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. 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. This position may be located in either Mountain View, CA or New York, NY. Productivity Engineering is a team at LinkedIn that builds products that power LinkedIn's business. We drive technology vision, architecture, and design systems that help the company deliver on major business processes (go-to-market, sales, finance, and customer support, etc.). We deliver applications and products that let our customers do business with us in a seamless way, help grow our top line, and increase our efficiency. LinkedIn is looking for a visionary Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join their Enterprise Platforms, Integration, and Collaboration (EPIC) organization leadership team, where you'll help transform experiences for everyone doing business in or with LinkedIn. In this pivotal role, you'll collaborate with senior engineering and product leads across the organization to set the bold technical direction and inspire your team to tackle complex challenges. You'll lead the rapid evolution of our internal experiences as we automate and build agentic experiences which empower our users to solve their needs across HR, Finance, Workplace, Events, Vendor Management, and more.

Responsibilities:

• Set direction to platforms that power multiple teams and products
• Deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale
• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7
• Execute on product and technical workstreams by collaborating with engineering, product managers, designers, other software development teams, and business partners
• Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies
• Design products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions
• Identify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems
• Work closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define a long-term technology roadmap
• Resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation, and learning
• Be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack
• Review others' work and share knowledge

Basic Qualifications:

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical 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, Go, Rust, Python, Scala
• 2+ years of experience as an architect, or technical leadership position

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 10+ years' experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position
• 5+ years' experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
• 10+ years programming experience in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C/C++
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
• Experience leading by influence, formulating and driving technical strategies across various organizations
• Experience leading a large organization
• Experience with Enterprise platforms and tooling.
• Experience in the design and development of performant, highly available, scalable web applications
• Relevant experience working with engineers across multiple skill sets (e.g. Application/Backend, UI/Frontend, iOS/Android/Mobile)
• Understanding of common performance patterns and anti-patterns in distributed systems
• Active involvement in the creation and execution of technical strategies and roadmaps

Suggested Skills:

• Technical Leadership
• Architectural Mastery
• Code Review
• Cross-organizational Collaboration
• Enterprise Applications

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 $181,000 - $297,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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