Senior Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead - Distributed Systems

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

Job summary

LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to help build next-generation infrastructure at Mountain View, CA or Bellevue, WA.

The role blends leadership with hands-on design across service delivery, data storage, graph infrastructure, analytics, streams processing, and AI/ML platforms in a hybrid work model. You will guide architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with open-source communities to deliver scalable systems, with a

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
• 5+ years of experience programming in object-oriented languages such as C/C++, Java, Go, Rust, Python, Scala
• 2+ years of experience as an architect, or technical leadership position
• Hands-on experience developing large-scale, distributed systems, and databases

Responsibilities

• Deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale
• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization
• Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies
• Design products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions
• Functioning as the tech-lead for multiple key initiatives, identify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems
• Partner closely with teams within the org and customers to execute on the vision for long-term success of our core infrastructure teams
• Working closely with the open-source community to participate and influence cutting edge open-source projects.
• Keep a platform first approach while designing products/service

Skills

Distributed Systems

Technical Leadership

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Systems Infrastructure

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field

MS or PhD in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Pinot

Samza

GRPC

GraphQL

Job description

LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to help build next-generation infrastructure at Mountain View, CA or Bellevue, WA.

The role blends leadership with hands-on design across service delivery, data storage, graph infrastructure, analytics, streams processing, and AI/ML platforms in a hybrid work model. You will guide architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with open-source communities to deliver scalable systems, with a