Principal Staff Software Engineer, Compute Infra Architect

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

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Principal Staff Software Engineer to lead the Compute Infrastructure team in Mountain View. You will drive the multi-year vision for LinkedIn's compute platform, scale infrastructure, and supervise high-performance scheduling across Kubernetes clusters.

You will partner with senior leaders to align architecture with business priorities, mentor engineers, and advance reliability and efficiency across the fleet in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
• 10+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
• 10+ years of experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, Go, C/C++, Rust, Rust, Python
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
• 4+ years of experience as an architect, or technical leadership position
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems and using agentic software engineering

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical vision for LinkedIn's compute platform, translating company-level priorities into an infrastructure architecture and roadmap
• Build and operate world class high performance scheduling/deployment solutions including large Kubernetes clusters to place stateless/stateful services, ML workloads and short running jobs efficiently
• Build and operate a platform that allocates hardware resources with necessary physical/logical distribution for fault tolerance and easy maintenance
• Build alignment across the engineering organization on infrastructure direction, partnering with distinguished engineers, fellows, and senior leadership
• Elevate engineering quality org-wide by coaching senior engineers, setting technical standards, and shaping how infrastructure decisions are made at LinkedIn

Skills

Distributed Systems

Kubernetes

Golang

Technical Leadership

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

LinkedIn is seeking a Principal Staff Software Engineer to lead the Compute Infrastructure team in Mountain View. You will drive the multi-year vision for LinkedIn's compute platform, scale infrastructure, and supervise high-performance scheduling across Kubernetes clusters.

You will partner with senior leaders to align architecture with business priorities, mentor engineers, and advance reliability and efficiency across the fleet in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment.