Staff Engineer, Hardware Reliability & Fleet Automation

LinkedIn; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn seeks a Staff Engineer for the Hardware Capacity Engineering team in Sunnyvale, CA. The role focuses on scaling and sustaining on‑prem data center hardware, building automation, and collaborating with SRE, software, and hardware vendors. Hybrid work model with office days.

Responsibilities include designing tests, benchmarking, onboarding new platforms, cost analysis, and leading fleet upgrades to ensure high reliability and observability at scale.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years working in Linux-based infrastructure, systems, or hardware engineering.
• 4+ years of hardware troubleshooting, systems engineering, and performance analysis.
• Experience developing software or automation for infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with LinkedIn engineering teams to select hardware platforms for apps.
• Design test environments; benchmark compute, storage, and power; report results.
• Qualify and integrate new server platforms end-to-end with vendors.
• Drive cost analysis and define SLAs with partner teams.
• Qualify BIOS, BMC, and firmware; lead fleet upgrade programs.
• Improve fleet reliability via fault detection and remediation.
• Design and own automation for hardware qualification and fleet health monitoring.
• Contribute to AI/ML infrastructure performance for GPU platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex hardware issues and lead incident response.

Skills

Linux

Hardware Troubleshooting

Infrastructure Automation

Software Development

Education

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Job description

LinkedIn seeks a Staff Engineer for the Hardware Capacity Engineering team in Sunnyvale, CA. The role focuses on scaling and sustaining on‑prem data center hardware, building automation, and collaborating with SRE, software, and hardware vendors. Hybrid work model with office days.

Responsibilities include designing tests, benchmarking, onboarding new platforms, cost analysis, and leading fleet upgrades to ensure high reliability and observability at scale.