LinkedIn · 2 weeks ago
Principal Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure SRE
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$226K/yr - $369K/yr
10+ years expLinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. They are seeking a Principal-level Technical Lead to join their Infrastructure SRE organization, where the role involves designing and implementing end-to-end solutions for the platform while mentoring team members and driving the development of scalable infrastructure operations solutions powered by AI/ML.
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Responsibilities
We take an engineering-first approach to elevate infrastructure operations and reliability. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be driving the strategy to bring down the total cost of ownership to run and operate our infrastructure
Build platforms to augment end-to-end reliability and scalability of LinkedIn’s platforms, services, and products and bring actionable operational insights to enable continuous improvement
You will be defining appropriate Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and managing error budgets to balance reliability with innovation and feature development for infrastructure
Scale: our data footprint continues to grow exponentially beyond 100s of thousands of servers, multiple exabytes of storage, 10s of trillions of events/messages - arrive at a cohesive strategy and best practices to continue to scale our footprint 10x
Cloud-based ecosystems are rapidly evolving. In this role, you will be expected to stay up to date with the latest cloud trends, including Kubernetes, serverless technologies, containers, and best practices for managing and optimizing large-scale infrastructure performance and help define our strategy and roadmap to set us up to be competitive and get ahead of the trends
Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to elevate the engineering organization, actively enhancing craftsmanship at LinkedIn by establishing best practices and strategic approaches
Influence and lead architecture and design decisions with a strong focus on ensuring Site Up as the top priority
Drive consensus across cross-functional teams within a matrixed organization, fostering alignment and building a cohesive and collaborative team culture
Qualification
Required
10+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
10+ years of experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, Go, C/C++, Rust, Python
Hands-on experience developing large-scale distributed systems
4+ years of experience as an architect, or technical leadership position
BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
Preferred
MS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Experience working in the site reliability space
Professional experience working in the technology industry
Experience with Data Infrastructure tech stacks: Kafka/PubSub systems, Flink, Airflow, ETL framework and distributed storage (HDFS, S3/EBS, Object Storage, Couchbase, or similar)
Experience architecting and launching complex AI and engineering projects
Experience leading and influencing within large, matrixed organization
Experience leading high-impact, cross-organization initiatives
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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