Staff Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Software Engineer (Premium partnerships engineering)
• Work mode: Hybrid (home and office on select days)

Description

You will drive the technical roadmap and architecture for a major product/infrastructure domain focused on LinkedIn Premium partner integrations. The role involves designing complex distributed systems, making critical choices between synchronous vs. asynchronous patterns, data storage, and third-party integrations, and delivering scalable, always-on applications. You will also provide technical leadership through cross-functional initiatives, engineering best practices, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Own technical roadmap and architecture for a product area or infrastructure domain aligned to medium/long-term business goals
• Design highly complex, multi-tier distributed systems with high-stakes architectural decisions
• Identify, champion, and execute large-scale cross-functional initiatives improving productivity, reliability, and/or operational costs
• Partner with engineering directors, product leads, and cross-functional principals to define technical strategies and de-risk ambiguous requirements
• Scale distributed applications, apply synchronous/asynchronous design trade-offs, and deliver with speed and quality
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume, reliable 24x7 user-centric applications
• Produce high-quality software with unit tests, code reviews, and regular check-ins for continuous integration
• Initiate, plan, and execute large-scale critical programs with technical leadership
• Identify and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity

Requirements

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years software design/development and algorithm-related experience
• 4+ years programming experience in an object-oriented language (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, or Ruby)

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Experience designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale
• Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Proven coding skills in Python or JavaScript/AJAX; database design and SQL and/or knowledge of TCP/IP and network programming
• Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management
• Experience authoring RFCs and driving architecture review boards for multi-team systems

Benefits

• Generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees and families
• Fair and equitable compensation practices; pay range $156,000–$255,000 depending on factors such as skills and experience
• Total compensation may include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits, and/or other incentives