Principal Data Lake Architect & Tech Lead

LinkedIn; California; Hybrid; USD 231,000 - 378,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness programs

Time away for employees

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Principal Technical Lead for OpenHouse and data lake infrastructure to drive architecture and technical direction at scale. You will mentor engineers, lead cross-team initiatives, and shape the next generation of table-management technology.

Based in Mountain View or Bellevue, this role blends hands-on engineering with leadership, focusing on reliability, openness, and cost efficiency while engaging with the open-source community.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years of industry experience in software design and development.
• 10+ years in technical leadership: architecture ownership and mentoring.
• 8+ years in table formats (Iceberg/Delta/Hudi) and data lake architectures.
• 8+ years building large-scale distributed data systems.
• 10+ years of systems programming (Java/Scala/Go) and distributed systems basics.
• 8+ years Open-source contribution experience preferred, especially Iceberg.

Responsibilities

• Own technical roadmap and architecture for OpenHouse and data lake services.
• Lead design and implementation of large-scale, highly available systems.
• Drive open-source contributions and engagement with Iceberg ecosystem.
• Partner with Analytics, AI Platform, and Data Infra teams for strategy.
• Provide mentorship and code/design review leadership across the team.
• Evaluate emerging lakehouse technologies and drive decisions.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency with SLOs and monitoring.
• Lead design reviews, RFCs, and drive stakeholder consensus.
• Guide incident response and root-cause analysis for data lake issues.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Data Infrastructure

Data Lake Iceberg

Spark Trino

Large-scale leadership

Education

MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Trino

Spark

Java

Scala

Go

Job description

LinkedIn is seeking a Principal Technical Lead for OpenHouse and data lake infrastructure to drive architecture and technical direction at scale. You will mentor engineers, lead cross-team initiatives, and shape the next generation of table-management technology.

Based in Mountain View or Bellevue, this role blends hands-on engineering with leadership, focusing on reliability, openness, and cost efficiency while engaging with the open-source community.