Staff Software Engineer - Compute Infrastructure

Responsibilities

Enable thousands of LinkedIn engineering teams to deploy and operate reliably — driving impact across areas such as CI/CD pipelines that deliver a seamless developer experience, a workload platform that provides resilient orchestration at scale, a self-healing host management system with intelligent health detection and automated remediation, Kubernetes cluster lifecycle and infrastructure, and GPU compute infrastructure powering AI/ML workloads, all underpinned by intelligent autoscaling, resource allocation, and capacity management

Accelerate LinkedIn's product velocity by improving platform observability, deployment safety, and release throughput

Shape technical direction across team boundaries, ensuring the platform evolves ahead of demand from new products, AI workloads, and growth

Strengthen the team by mentoring engineers, raising the technical bar, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence

Resolve deep production issues that cut across Kubernetes internals, operating system behavior, and distributed system interactions

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications
• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions
• 4+ years of experience programming in languages such as Go or Python
• Hands-on experience developing distributed systems, large-scale platforms, or backend services
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms

Qualifications

• Preferred Qualifications
• BS and 8+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 7+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 4+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with Kubernetes controller development and cluster lifecycle automation
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects
• Demonstrated ability to leverage agentic development tools and workflows to accelerate engineering productivity

Skills

• Distributed Systems
• Golang
• Kubernetes
• Technical Leadership

Pay

$175,000 - $287,000

Benefits

LinkedIn offers a comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness programs, time off, and stock options. LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and offers a competitive salary range for this role.