LinkedIn · 1 week ago
Principal Staff Software Engineer - Compute Infrastructure - 15422
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$226K/yr - $369K/yr
10+ years expLinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, focused on creating economic opportunities for its members. The Principal Staff Software Engineer will play a key role in re-architecting LinkedIn's compute infrastructure, working on large-scale solutions and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance performance and scalability.
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Responsibilities
You will directly contribute to LinkedIn’s Compute infrastructure strategy
You will build and operate a platform that allocates hardware resources with necessary physical/logical distribution for fault tolerance and easy maintenance
You will build and operate world class high performance scheduling/deployment solutions including some of the world's largest Kubernetes clusters to place stateless/stateful services, ML workloads and short running jobs efficiently
You will help up-level and coach a large team of talented developers
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
15+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
15+ years of programming experience in an object-oriented programming language such as Go, Java, C/C++, Rust
5+ years of experience in a technical leadership position
5+ years of experience building large-scale compute infrastructure, and distributed systems
Demonstrated understanding of operating system fundamentals, container technologies, and systems knowledge
Experience building and operating cluster management solutions such as Kubernetes
Experience with IaaS systems and capacity management
Experience with networking and security principles
Experience in leading technical teams and mentoring other engineers
Benefits
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
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$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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