Performance Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Beaverton (OR); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Growth ladder

Hybrid/remote-friendly

Job summary

LinkedIn in Beaverton, OR is seeking a Performance Engineer to own mentoring-focused on-call workflows and silence noise with meaningful alerts. You will improve observability, own Laravel billing edge-cases, and drive Emotional Intelligence initiatives across the Beaverton team.

The role involves collaboration with a tight-knit group, on-call rotations, and a growth-friendly environment with mentorship and a clear ladder for progression. Beaverton or remote work options are available.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated comfort presenting to mid-level leadership.
• Ability to thrive both independently and as part of a tight-knit team.
• Genuine curiosity about the OR market and its dynamics.
• Comfort presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in software engineering or site reliability.

Responsibilities

• Turn Mentoring on-call noise into meaningful alerts.
• Own edge-case handling in Laravel billing.
• Stand up observability to detect failures before customers.
• Lead the Emotional Intelligence workstream to unblock the Beaverton roadmap.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in postmortems.
• Sketch and defend Tailwind CSS architecture, then implement it.
• Backfill Laravel test coverage in risky areas.
• Carry features from whiteboard to Beaverton production without drop-off.

Skills

Emotional Intelligence

Mentoring

Effective communication

Independent work

Tools

Laravel

Tailwind CSS

Job description

LinkedIn keeps a small, opinionated engineering team in Beaverton, and the next opinion we need belongs to a Performance Engineer. You supply 4 years and Mentoring; LinkedIn supplies $89,000 - $139,000, a Beaverton home, and growth that does not flatten out.

Key Responsibilities

• Turn LinkedIn's Mentoring on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Own the zero-bureaucracy edge cases in LinkedIn's Laravel billing nobody else wants to touch
• Stand up observability so LinkedIn sees failures before customers in OR do
• Own the mid-level Emotional Intelligence workstream that unblocks the rest of LinkedIn's Beaverton, OR roadmap
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Sketch the Tailwind CSS architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Backfill Laravel test coverage on the riskiest corners of LinkedIn's codebase
• Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Beaverton, OR production without dropping the baton

What You'll Bring

• Ability to thrive both independently and as part of a tight-knit team
• Demonstrated comfort presenting to mid-level leadership
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• An OR sensibility, or genuine curiosity about this market
• Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level
• A solid foundation in Emotional Intelligence, refined over 5+ years
• A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork

At LinkedIn, a bias-to-action team in Beaverton, OR has spent years proving that Unit Testing and Mentoring belong in the same conversation. Every Performance Engineer at LinkedIn owns an outcome, not just a checklist of tasks.

Our $89,000 - $139,000 package travels with real mentorship, a growth ladder you can see, and the flexibility to clock in from Beaverton or home.

We welcome applications from driven professionals ready to make an impact.