Senior Staff Software Engineer, Capacity & Efficiency

LinkedIn; California; Hybrid; USD 198,000 - 326,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join the Capacity & Efficiency Engineering team. You will help build foundational datasets, models, and tools powering infrastructure visibility, cost attribution, and planning.

You will set a high bar for technical excellence, mentor engineers, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver forward-looking solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the architecture for LinkedIn’s capacity planning and efficiency platforms, shaping how we forecast demand and allocate resources.
• Make efficiency a first-class engineering outcome – surface sizing, reclamation, and optimization opportunities across the fleet.
• Set high standards for data quality, correctness, and reliability across data and models used in capacity and financial decisions.
• Stay hands-on in complex engineering challenges, drive critical implementations, and set the technical bar through code and architecture.
• Influence technical strategy across organizational boundaries, mentor engineers, and raise standards beyond immediate scope.

Skills

C/C++

Java

Go

Rust

Python

Scala

Technical Leadership

Cloud

On Premise

Capacity Engineering

Distributed Systems

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

Kafka/PubSub

Flink

Airflow

ETL framework

HDFS/S3

Couchbase

Job description

LinkedIn is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join the Capacity & Efficiency Engineering team. You will help build foundational datasets, models, and tools powering infrastructure visibility, cost attribution, and planning.

You will set a high bar for technical excellence, mentor engineers, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver forward-looking solutions at scale.