Software Engineer - Systems and Infrastructure

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’re 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.

About the role

As part of our world-class software engineering team, you will help build the next-generation infrastructure and platforms that power LinkedIn’s products, business, and AI-first future. This includes data infrastructure, storage systems, streaming platforms, traffic and network infrastructure, and other foundational platforms that enable reliable, scalable, and AI-first product experiences. Our infrastructure enables teams across LinkedIn to build, deploy, and operate AI-first products at scale.

You will work on foundational systems that make it possible to process massive volumes of data, serve low-latency online experiences, power personalized and AI-first user experiences, and ensure reliability, security, privacy, and compliance across the full technology stack. We are building next-generation data infrastructure, including storage, streams, media, and analytics platforms. You will help scale LinkedIn’s infrastructure to handle massive data growth across the LinkedIn ecosystem as we continue to grow our membership, products, and AI-first experiences.

Bring your experience in distributed systems and algorithms, along with a strong systems orientation across concurrency, scalability, performance, caching, queuing, and distributed data storage. You should be excited to work on cutting-edge infrastructure systems that make a real impact at company scale.

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

• Design, implement, and optimize the performance of large-scale distributed systems with security and compliance in mind.
• Participate in design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Partner with peers, leads, and partners to define, scope, prioritize, and build impactful features at a high velocity.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 1+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions.
• Experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go, C#, Rust and/or functional languages such as Scala.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• Experience designing, building, and triaging complex, large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with industry, open-source, and/or academic research in technologies such as GCP, S3, Azure, Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Trino, Airflow, Kubernetes, GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, Pinot, ClickHouse, or Cassandra.

Skills

• Distributed systems
• Backend Systems Infrastructure
• Java/Golang/Rust/Python

Benefits

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.

Pay

The pay range for this role is $120,000 - $195,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits, and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.