Senior Staff Engineer - Trust & Compliance Architecture

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness programs

Flexible time off

Inclusive culture

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Trust Engineering to set technical direction and lead teams building Trust Experience and Regulatory Compliance solutions. The role bridges business needs with technical execution, driving architectural decisions and ensuring ongoing compliance across the platform.

You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to raise the bar for security, privacy, and regulator-aligned features while mentoring engineers and shaping culture.

Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 5+ years of experience in programming languages such as Python, Java, C/C++, C#.
• 2+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position.
• 2+ years experience delivering engineering solutions in a regulatory, compliance, privacy, or any trust and safety domain.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader helping shape the long-term member transparency, controls, and compliance engineering strategy and driving technical decisions within the organization.
• 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 maintain member trust and enable compliance by design.
• Partner closely and across multiple engineering teams to raise the bar for trust experiences and ensure e2e compliance.
• Analyze complex systems problems and drive meaningful engineering and product decisions by balancing the risk, compliance and member value.
• Contribute to a multi-year initiative to transition and transform LinkedIn’s infrastructure to ensure continuous compliance even as regulations change and evolve.
• Deliver key insights, executive level reporting across the engineering teams to enable the right business decisions around improving trust and regulatory best practices
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction across the org, 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.

Skills

Software Engineering

Regulatory & Compliance

Technical leadership

Trust & Safety

Crossfunctional work

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Trust Engineering to set technical direction and lead teams building Trust Experience and Regulatory Compliance solutions. The role bridges business needs with technical execution, driving architectural decisions and ensuring ongoing compliance across the platform.

You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to raise the bar for security, privacy, and regulator-aligned features while mentoring engineers and shaping culture.