Sr. Director, Software Engineering - Product Platform & Infrastructure

LinkedIn; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 242,000 - 398,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn seeks an engineering leader to define and drive the SDUI platform across Web, iOS, and Android. You will manage a customer-first platform organization, partnering with product and design to deliver reusable capabilities and enable migrations.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, quality, and AI-ready tooling for scale. You will mentor engineering managers, shape strategic roadmaps, and ensure reliable, performant experiences for 1+ billion users while fostering a culture of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years of engineering people management.
• Experience managing engineering managers and leading multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, technical strategy, and execution of LinkedIn’s SDUI platform for building product experiences across Web, iOS, and Android.
• Manage a customer-first platform organization that understands product teams’ needs and removes friction.
• Partner with product and design leaders to translate experience requirements into reusable platform capabilities.
• Drive SDUI adoption and migration across LinkedIn with clear ownership, milestones, and retirement plans for legacy systems.
• Improve the full experience of building on the platform, from learning it to testing, debugging, releasing, and operating products.
• Guide architectural decisions across UI frameworks, client rendering, frontend APIs, and backend integration.
• Hold a high bar for quality of experiences including responsiveness, accessibility, reliability across client platforms.
• Measure success through product team adoption, development speed, and quality of shipped experiences.
• Lead and develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
• Make the SDUI platform AI-ready through component contracts, documentation, and automated validation.

Skills

UI Platforms

Server-Driven UI

Product Stack Architecture

Customer-Focused Platform Development

Engineering Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

MS or PhD (preferred)

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.

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.

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA.

About the Team and Role

The Product Platform & Infrastructure team builds the platforms that power the LinkedIn app, LinkedIn.com, and all product feature development for 1 billion+ professionals globally. The team is reimagining how our products are built for performance, reliability, and delight while building agentic workflows for end-to-end product development.

One of the major platforms the team builds is LinkedIn’s server-driven UI (SDUI) platform, which enables product teams to build and deliver experiences across Web, iOS, and Android through a shared development model. We build the frameworks, components, APIs, tools, and AI orchestration that connect product ideas to the experiences our members and customers use every day. Our success depends on how effectively product teams can create high-quality experiences on the platform to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.

We are looking for an engineering leader to drive the platform’s technical vision, strategy, adoption, and execution. You should understand the product stack from UI components, interaction patterns, and client rendering to frontend APIs and backend services – and care deeply about the people building and using our products. You will work closely with engineering, product, and design leaders to evolve our SDUI platform, complete platform migrations, and make it easier for teams to build great experiences independently. You will build industry-leading agentic development capabilities to enable anyone to go from idea to a product deployed to 1 billion+ member scale with unprecedented speed and stability.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own the vision, technical strategy, and execution of LinkedIn’s SDUI platform for building product experiences across Web, iOS, and Android.

• Manage a customer-first platform organization that understands product teams’ needs, works closely with them, and takes responsibility for removing friction.

• Partner with product and design leaders to translate experience requirements into reusable platform capabilities, balancing consistency with flexibility for different products.

• Drive SDUI adoption and migration across LinkedIn, with clear ownership, milestones, quality standards, and retirement plans for legacy systems.

• Improve the full experience of building on the platform, from learning it and creating UI to testing, debugging, experimenting, releasing, and operating products.

• Guide architectural decisions across UI frameworks, component systems, client rendering, frontend APIs, and backend integration.

• Hold a high bar for the quality of experiences the platform enables, including responsiveness, accessibility, reliability, and appropriate behavior on each client platform.

• Measure success through product team adoption and satisfaction, development speed, and the quality and performance of shipped experiences.

• Lead and develop engineering managers and technical leaders, building an organization with strong technical judgment, product understanding, and accountability.

• Make the SDUI platform AI-ready through clear component contracts, machine-readable schemas, accessible documentation, and automated validation, enabling AI tools and agents to generate and modify experiences that meet our standards for design, accessibility, performance, and reliability.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years of engineering people management.

• Experience managing engineering managers and leading multiple engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.

• 5+ years of experience managing managers and leading organizations of 50+ people.

• Experience building and leading shared platforms or frameworks used by product engineers to create user-facing applications.

• Experience working directly with product management and design teams to deliver platform capabilities that support product experiences.

• Experience driving technical initiatives across multiple teams and organizational boundaries.

• Deep technical experience with UI platforms, application frameworks, server-driven UI, or cross-platform product development.

• Strong understanding of the end-to-end product stack, including UI composition, state management, rendering, client-server interactions, frontend APIs, and backend services.

• Experience building platforms that support rich, responsive experiences across Web, iOS, and Android.

• Demonstrated customer-first judgment: seeking direct feedback from product teams, understanding their constraints, and changing platform priorities based on their needs.

• Experience partnering with design organizations on reusable components, interaction patterns, accessibility, and design-system integration.

• A track record of driving platform adoption and completing migrations while maintaining product quality and enabling ongoing feature development.

• Experience making developers more self-sufficient through well-designed APIs, tools, documentation, and debugging capabilities.

• A track record of developing strong engineering managers and senior technical leaders.

• Experience designing platforms or developer tools that support AI-assisted development, including the interfaces, context, and validation needed to produce reliable, production-quality results.

Suggested Skills

• UI Platforms and Server-Driven UI

• Product Stack Architecture

• Customer-Focused Platform Development

• Engineering Organizational Leadership

• Platform Adoption and Migration

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 alllevels.

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $242,000 to $398,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

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

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