Manager, Software Engineering, Observability

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Manager for Software Engineering within their Observability team. This role involves overseeing engineering teams to ensure the performance and scalability of applications while fostering a culture of mentoring and development. Candidates should possess a strong background in software engineering and management, with a commitment to high-quality software delivery.

Benefits

Generous health and wellness programs

Flexible work arrangements

Career growth and mentoring opportunities

Qualifications

• 1+ years of management experience or staff level engineering experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large-scale software engineering.
• Experience programming in languages such as Java, Python, C++, Go.

Responsibilities

• Manage performance and career development of a team of engineers.
• Develop long-term technology roadmap in collaboration with senior management.
• Create UI visualizations and troubleshooting tools using relevant technologies.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Communication

Software Design

Cross-organizational collaboration

Education

BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline

MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Job description

Manager, Software Engineering, Observability

Manager, Software Engineering, Observability

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Software Engineering Manager, Applications (Hybrid)

Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s 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. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

The Observability organization builds and maintains the foundational systems that help developers and operators understand, monitor, and troubleshoot their applications and infrastructure. This includes end-to-end ownership of metrics, logs, and traces—covering ingestion, storage, querying, and visualization. The team develops SDKs and integrations for instrumentation, builds scalable platforms for data collection and analysis, and provides intuitive UIs and tools to support triaging and root-cause analysis. The goal is to deliver reliable insights into system behavior, performance, and health—enabling fast, data-driven responses to incidents and performance regressions.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description
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.

The Observe team builds and maintains the observability platform responsible for metrics, logs, and traces. We create intuitive UI visualizations and effective troubleshooting tools using React, Grafana, and Go. Our mission is to help engineers quickly understand system behavior, triage issues, and resolve incidents with confidence.

Responsibilities:
You will manage the performance and career development of a small team of engineers, and own significant parts of LinkedIn products that require design, architecture, and coding.
You will participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap.
You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.
You will work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
You will manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, review code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
You will develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
You will produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Basic Qualifications:
BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training
5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large-scale software engineering
Experience programming in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (like Java/Python/C/C++/Scala/etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:
MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
2+ years of hands-on software engineering/technical management and people management experience
7+ years industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
5+ years programming experience in languages such as Java, C/C++, C#, Python, Go, etc.
Experience in the design and development of performant, highly available, scalable web applications
Understanding of common performance patterns and anti-patterns in distributed systems
Successful track record of managing small teams of engineers to deliver multiple projects on time and with quality
Active involvement in the creation and execution of technical strategies and roadmaps
Hire and retain world-class engineers by providing career growth, mentoring, and high impact projects, while taking intelligent risks to improve the way work is done

Suggested Skills:
Technical Leadership
Communication
Software Design
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.

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $147,000 - $240,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at [e-mail] and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.

Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

-Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
-Having interviews in an accessible location
-Being accompanied by a service dog
-Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
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• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet and IT Services and IT Consulting

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