Regulatory & Compliance Systems Architect

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 352,000; Full time

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Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Principal Staff Software Engineer to architect and lead regulatory and compliance solutions across its marketplaces, aligning tech with evolving global regulations. This role partners with multiple engineering teams to enable compliant, scalable systems while maintaining developer velocity and member trust.

The hybrid work model combines home and office days, with a focus on leadership in design, governance, and practical implementation of compliance across product surfaces.

Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 10+ years of programming experience in Java, C++, C# or similar programming languages.
• 7+ years of experience building large-scale distributed applications.
• 5+ years in an architect or technical leadership position.
• 5+ years experience delivering engineering solutions in a regulatory, compliance, privacy, or adjacent domain.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical leader driving the long-term regulatory and compliance engineering strategy across LinkedIn’s marketplaces.
• Stay ahead of evolving privacy, digital-platform, and AI regulations, translating new and anticipated obligations into pragmatic engineering direction
• Architect solutions that complement both existing and new systems at LinkedIn to enable compliance by design.
• Partner closely and across many different types of engineering teams to raise the bar for regulatory awareness and compliance by design and ensure e2e compliance.
• Analyze complex systems problems and drive meaningful engineering and product decisions by balancing the risk, compliance and member value.
• Define and own the roadmap of bringing regulatory best practices to critical user journeys for LinkedIn’s products to help capture and improve the experience of LinkedIn’s members/customers
• Support external regulatory engagements to translate complex technical challenges into understandable terms for technical and non-technical audiences
• Spearhead a multi-year initiative to transition and transform LinkedIn’s infrastructure to ensure continuous compliance even as regulations change and evolve.
• Lead technical discussions on the impact of regulations on Engineering at LinkedIn, what the function should evolve into over the next 3–5 years
• Deliver key insights, executive level reporting across the cross-functional engineering teams to enable the right business decisions around improving regulatory best practices
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction across orgs, and contributing deeply to culture, hiring, and technical excellence
• Lead regulatory incident response and post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement preventive measures. Develop and maintain processes and procedures to ensure timely resolution of issues and minimize impact on members and customers

Skills

Software Engineering

Regulatory & Compliance

Technical leadership

Architecture

Education

BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Job description

LinkedIn is seeking a Principal Staff Software Engineer to architect and lead regulatory and compliance solutions across its marketplaces, aligning tech with evolving global regulations. This role partners with multiple engineering teams to enable compliant, scalable systems while maintaining developer velocity and member trust.

The hybrid work model combines home and office days, with a focus on leadership in design, governance, and practical implementation of compliance across product surfaces.