Manager, Software Engineering - Product Application Infrastructure, Localization

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

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Software Engineering Manager to oversee the internationalization and localization platform team. This role involves managing engineers, developing scalable infrastructure, and leveraging AI for globally relevant experiences. Join to shape the future of software engineering at a transformative workplace.

Benefits

Generous health and wellness programs

Career growth opportunities

Inclusive and accessible experience for all

Qualifications

• 1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large-scale software engineering.
• Experience in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Manage performance and career development of a team of engineers.
• Develop long-term technology roadmap with senior management.
• Deliver quality, scalable applications operating 24x7.

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 - Product Application Infrastructure, Localization

Manager, Software Engineering - Product Application Infrastructure, Localization

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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 Product Application Infrastructure (PAI) team’s mission is to build reliable, efficient, and intuitive world class tools and infrastructure that amplify productivity of the product engineers, product managers, and product designers that create our suite of products. We are rebuilding our technical stack to support rapid iteration, high quality, and deeply personalized experiences. At the core of this vision for personalization is localization—not as an afterthought, but as a product-defining capability.

We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead our internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) platform team. In this role, you won’t just build scalable i18n infrastructure and l10n pipelines—you’ll lead efforts to leverage large language models (LLMs) that generate culturally resonant, context-aware translations for our global members and customers. This is an opportunity to shape how AI, infrastructure, and design come together to create inclusive and globally relevant experiences for millions.

The ideal candidate will be excited for the challenge to transform and think critically on many computer science disciplines including user and developer experience, user-centric applications, business logic, scaling performance, and 24x7 reliability. They will also play a critical role in helping their team build, maintain, monitor, and deploy our systems.

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.

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, development, and operations of performant, highly available, scalable applications
Knowledge of localization and LLMs
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.

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-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.

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Seniority level

• 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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