LinkedIn ยท 3 months ago
Principal Staff Software Engineer, Edge and Traffic Infrastructure
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$218K/yr - $357K/yr
8+ years expLinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, dedicated to creating economic opportunities for every member of the global workforce. They are seeking a Principal Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction and development of LinkedIn's traffic engineering, content delivery, and load balancing infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability of global traffic systems.
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Responsibilities
Develop and drive technical roadmaps for LinkedIn's content delivery, proxy, traffic routing, and load balancing infrastructure
Establish engineering and design best practices for building high-scale, reliable, and performant traffic systems
Lead design reviews, incident post-mortems, and production readiness reviews, ensuring adherence to reliability and scalability standards
Significantly contribute to the design and development of key projects, providing hands-on engineering leadership
Collaborate closely with workload owners to identify and address both current and emerging technical requirements
Design, deploy, and optimize traffic routing and security over multiple content delivery networks
Implement and maintain proxy systems to enhance traffic distribution, load balancing, and fault tolerance
Drive automation, observability, and fault tolerance initiatives, reducing downtime and improving MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery)
Analyze network traffic telemetry to optimize load balancing, manage traffic spikes, and plan for future capacity needs
Establish and monitor key performance metrics, SLAs, and SLOs for DNS and traffic routing systems
Act as a technical mentor, recruiting, developing, and coaching junior engineers to strengthen the team's expertise
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience in network infrastructure, site reliability engineering, or large-scale distributed systems
Expertise in traffic engineering, load balancing, and DNS resolution in high-scale, globally distributed environments
Coding experience in one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, or C++
Preferred
MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
10+ years experience working in cloud-scale or web-scale environments
Deep understanding of edge networks, CDNs, and software-defined networking (SDN)
Experience with networking protocols and traffic management technologies (e.g., BGP, Anycast, TLS, HTTP/2, QUIC)
Hands-on experience with traffic routing platforms such as IPVS, Apache Traffic Server (ATS), HAProxy, or Envoy
Proven ability to drive architectural decisions, solve complex scaling challenges, and optimize system performance
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams
Benefits
Generous health and wellness programs
Time away for employees of all levels
Annual performance bonus
Stock
Benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans
Company
LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows users to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$154.8MKey Investors
Bain Capital VenturesGreylockSequoia Capital
2016-06-13Acquired
2016-02-15Private Equity
2014-04-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Ryan Roslansky
Chief Executive Officer
Dan Shapero
Chief Operating Officer
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