Staff Software Engineer

About the role

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA. 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

• Design and build scalable, performant, maintainable, distributed systems for managing our production infrastructure.
• Apply SRE disciplines to the systems you own: define and monitor SLOs/SLIs, instrument services for observability (metrics, logging, tracing), reduce toil through automation, and continuously improve reliability, capacity, and performance.
• Build and operate ETL pipelines and data systems that turn raw hardware, capacity, and lifecycle signals into reliable, queryable datasets—and surface them through dashboards and reports that drive operational and planning decisions.
• Participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response, and drive blameless postmortems to systemic resolution.
• Collaborate with our development teams and client stakeholders to define and build systems that meet both user and organizational needs.
• Create and maintain a UX & UI pattern library that is reusable across multiple tools/apps to ensure consistent behaviors for common designs.
• Design backend models and APIs for use by our customers, and support our customers in their use of them.
• Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, and other agentic coding assistants) to accelerate delivery—while upholding correctness, security, and maintainability through testing, code review, and sound engineering judgment.
• Help establish team practices and guardrails for using AI in the development lifecycle in a reliable, high-quality way.
• Provide technical leadership, driving best practices to improve productivity, visibility, and craftsmanship across the organization, as well as among our code-producing customers.

Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 5+ years of software development in one or more object-oriented languages such as Java or Python
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with semantic HTML, CSS and object-oriented JavaScript