Sr. Software Engineer, Systems 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.

Responsibilities

• Help scale LinkedIn’s infrastructure to handle massive growth in membership, traffic, and data as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products with focus in one or more of the areas below:
• Data Infrastructure: A focus on building and supporting large scale systems and tools that enable the generation of insights and data products on all of LinkedIn’s internal and external data via self-serve computing, reporting solutions, and interactive querying.
• Search, Networks and Analytics: Build and operate the platform that powers all of search at LinkedIn—responding to thousands of queries per second with target latencies in tens of milliseconds. The goal is to provide and run in 24/7 production environment a platform that enables search quality engineers to rapidly innovate, experiment and improve relevance—while at the same time remaining constantly available and performant to our users.
• Service: Provide the technical platform for all of LinkedIn Engineering to build services, which are the essential unit of development and deployment.
• Content and Community: Deliver the systems and algorithms that generate and serve feeds of professionally relevant activities and content.

Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 2+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 2+ years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go, Rust, C# or functional languages such as Scala or other relevant coding languages
• Hands on experience developing distributed systems, large-scale systems, databases or Backend APIs

Suggested Skills

• Data Structures & Algorithms
• Distributed Systems
• Operating Systems
• Cloud Computing

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.

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