Sr. Software Engineer, Development Infrastructure

About the role

This role will be available in Bellevue, Washington. At LinkedIn, 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.

This role is part of the Development Infrastructure (DI) organization where you will get an opportunity to influence, transform, and create the next generation, agent-centric, large-scale development infrastructure at LinkedIn. We are a data-driven organization and you will lead strategic investments to make step-function improvements in the lives of LinkedIn developers. This spans multiple areas including but not limited to:

• Providing tools and infrastructure that create delightful development experiences for thousands of developers
• Providing the environments where agents write, build, test, and publish code
• Providing actionable insights that leverage data and metrics
• Delivering reliable and scalable infrastructure

You will have the opportunity to engage the industry-wide developer community and contribute to open-source software as well.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship software at scale that delivers impact
• Improve all aspects of developer experience with a data-driven mindset
• Design and build tools and frameworks to automate development, testing, deployment, management, monitoring, data gathering and analysis of our 24x7 services and products
• Develop and evangelize solutions to challenges faced by every product and infrastructure team at LinkedIn to improve developer happiness, productivity, and efficiency
• Scale the infrastructure and tools required to keep our 6,000+ developers in step when they are all sharing the same code, building and testing our software stacks, and releasing and deploying their services continuously without compromising site reliability
• Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute critical, large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wide programs

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
• 2+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions
• 2+ years programming experience in object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C

Preferred Qualifications

• BS and 5+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 5+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 2+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and network programming
• Experience working in a Unix environment (Linux preferred)
• Experience in large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
• Experience in driving automated cloud management systems at scale
• Experience in containerization, cluster schedulers, infrastructure configuration and orchestration
• Experience in standard build tools (e.g., Gradle, Bazel) and version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Experience in Python development using frameworks like Django, Flask, Jinja, SQLAlchemy
• Knowledge and experience in Tomcat, Jetty, Netty, Apache/ATS, Scala/sbt, or Node.js
• Experience in working with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, Dynamo, Cassandra, MongoDB)
• Experience in messaging & big data systems/solutions (e.g., Spark, Presto, Alation, Hadoop, Kafka)

Skills

• Object-oriented programming
• Web services
• Infrastructure

Pay

The pay range for this role is $139,000 to $229,000. 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.