Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust Engineering

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

Job summary

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead Trust Experience and Regulatory Compliance initiatives in a hybrid work model based in Mountain View. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and translate regulatory requirements into technical specifications while maintaining member trust and developer velocity.

This role emphasizes leadership in a matrix organization, operational health, and long-term

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software design and development.
• 5+ years of experience in programming languages such as Python, Java, C/C++, C#.
• 2+ years in an architect or technical leadership role.
• 2+ years in regulatory, compliance, privacy, or trust domain.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader shaping long-term member transparency, controls, and compliance strategy.
• Stay ahead of evolving privacy, digital-platform, and AI regulations; translate obligations into engineering direction.
• Architect solutions to maintain trust and enable compliance by design.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to raise the bar for trust experiences and end-to-end compliance.
• Analyze complex systems to drive engineering and product decisions balancing risk, compliance and value.
• Lead multi-year initiatives to transform infrastructure for ongoing compliance amid changing regulations.
• Provide insights and executive reporting to enable business decisions on trust and compliance practices.
• Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and contribute to culture and hiring.

Skills

Python

Java

C/C++

C#

Software design

Architectural leadership

Regulatory compliance

Education

BA/BS CS or related

related practical experience

Tools

None

Job description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, you will set the technical direction for and lead teams in the implementation of Trust Experience and Regulatory Compliance solutions. As a key leader in the organization, you will research, build software, anticipate and influence architectures in other parts of the company, influence how products are built at LinkedIn, set the bar for operational health and excellence, while continuing to deliver member value. You will design technical solutions for the ecosystem across surfaces to create a cohesive and compliant experience for our members. You will act as the bridge between business and technology to help translate compliance objectives into technical specifications, design the architecture and ensure the solution aligns with our regulatory obligations. This involves collaborating with multiple stakeholders and being comfortable operating in a matrix environment. Maintain member trust and regulator confidence through provable, continuous compliance solutions. You will enable LinkedIn to maintain member trust and regulator confidence through provable, continuous compliance solutions while reducing risk and enabling developer velocity.

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. Ensure that needs are met through well designed and effectively implemented technology solutions.
• 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. Develop and maintain processes and procedures to ensure timely resolution of issues and minimize impact on members and customers

Qualifications

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• BS and 10+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 8+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 6+ years of relevant work experience.
• Hands-on experience building engineering solutions for large compliance initiatives - Examples include, DMA, GPDR, DSA, AI Act.
• Hands-on experience in the trust and safety domain
• Work experience in the technology industry
• Hands on experience building engineering solutions for internet scale products.
• Proven success designing and leading architectural transformations at internet-scale companies
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience influencing across multiple orgs and leadership levels
• Deep knowledge of various data systems, particularly around management of data.
• Track record of setting long-term technical strategy and driving systemic improvements to meet regulatory and compliance requirements
• Growth mindset to keep up with evolving technology and regulatory landscape and agility to adapt quickly
• Business acumen to understand the business outcomes and align technical solutions with compliance requirements while balancing business outcomes.

Suggested Skills

• Software Engineering
• Regulatory & Compliance
• Technical leadership
• Trust & Safety
• Crossfunctional work

Additional Information

You will Benefit from our Culture

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels.

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $185,000 - $304,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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