Staff Software Engineer - Applications

Staff Software Engineer - Applications

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 are 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.

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the team. We are looking for someone who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, aligns points of view across teams and makes smart trade-offs to help achieve the goals of individual teams as well as LinkedIn's broader goals. This leader will foster LinkedIn's culture and values around transformation, collaboration, and results.

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.

Responsibilities

• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.
• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build scalable platforms/products/services/tools and to improve engineering productivity in the organization.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience.
• 8+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 8+ years experience programming experience in Java and/or C++

Preferred Qualifications

• BS 10+ years of relevant work experience, MS 9+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD 7+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale & strong object oriented skills.
• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience with object oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Java, C++ etc.).

Suggested Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Distributed Systems
• Software Design

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.