Senior Staff Software Engineer - Applications

LinkedIn; Karnataka; On-site; INR 4,800,000 - 9,600,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in a hybrid work model, combining home and office days as determined by team needs. The role emphasizes architectural leadership, scalable systems, and high-quality software delivery across multiple teams.

The candidate will mentor engineers, drive best practices, and collaborate with stakeholders to align product priorities with technical strategy while upholding LinkedIn's culture of trust, care, and results.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithms.
• 5+ years in an architect or technical leadership position.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization.
• Scale distributed applications and design patterns, write code, and deliver with quality.
• Review work, share knowledge, and coach engineers for faster delivery and craftsmanship.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable platforms, services, and tools.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Distributed Systems

Software Design

Technical Communication

Cross-organizational collaboration

Education

Engineering degree in CS or related field

Job description

LinkedIn is the worlds largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. Were also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture thats built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun where everyone can succeed.

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the team. We are looking for someone who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, aligns points of view across teams and makes smart tradeoffs to help achieve the goals of individual teams as well as LinkedIn's broader goals. This leader will foster LinkedIn's culture and values around transformation, collaboration, and results.

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:

• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization.
• Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.
• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities and collaborate with cross functional teams to design and build scalable platforms/products/services/tools and to improve engineering - productivity in the organization.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
• Resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture.
• Review others' work and share knowledge.

Basic Qualifications:

• Engineering degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 5+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position.
• 10+ years of experience with object oriented design, coding patterns, programming languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.).
• 8+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, understand the product priorities, think with the big picture and solve core problems in the most efficient way.
• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale & strong object oriented skills.
• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience building web applications and services with IDEs, ant, Junit, etc.
• Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.

Suggested Skills:

• Technical Leadership
• Distributed Systems
• Software Design
• Technical Communication
• Cross-organizational collaboration

You will Benefit from our Culture:

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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