Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Development Infrastructure

About the role

This role will be based in Bellevue, WA. The Development infrastructure (DI) organization has the mission of making everyone in LinkedIn R&D more productive and successful. The charter includes all the core infrastructure to Discover, Write, Build, Test and Deploy code.

Responsibilities

• Grow, develop, and mentor a team that provides engineering systems which enable all LinkedIn developers to build services for LinkedIn members and Enterprise customers productively, with consistently high quality, and with minimal friction.
• Work across Engineering to build relationships with other teams and use their feedback and understand their goals to build and prioritize a strategy and roadmap for your team, and for products that may span multiple teams.
• Own the design, development, testing, deployment and craft of your team’s infrastructure and systems, with high reliability and scalability.
• Leverage your deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers and provide leadership on resolving complex technology issues.
• Build operational excellence roadmaps, drive adoption of best practices from design to delivery, and improve developer feature/code velocity.

Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
• 7+ years of programming experience in Java, C++, C# or similar programming languages
• 7+ years of experience building large-scale distributed applications
• 3+ years of experience building developer infrastructure and services, including development and code collaboration environments, CI/CD platforms, and measuring software development productivity and quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Dream big. Make big, bold moves to define and build the next generation of developer infra and inspire others to do the same
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to communicate technical strategy and roadmap in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
• Masters degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• Deep understanding of the Software development Life Cycle and related build and test systems
• Shipped several large-scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
• Engagement in coaching and mentoring fellow engineers in their careers
• Experience attracting, retaining, and developing engineering and operations talent throughout the industry

Suggested Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Experience developing technical strategy
• Developer Tools & Automation
• Quality & Testing Infrastructure