Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Infra (Hybrid)

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 287,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness programs

Stock options

Annual performance bonus

Job summary

LinkedIn in Mountain View is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the next-generation distributed infrastructure powering our AI-first products. You will design and optimize large-scale systems, work on data storage, streaming, and analytics platforms, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, scalable experiences.

You will engage with open-source communities, mentor engineers, and help shape our technical culture.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 4+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 4+ years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go, Rust, C# and/or Functional languages such as Scala or other relevant coding languages.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.
• Design, implement, and optimize the performance of large-scale distributed systems with security and compliance in mind.
• Improve observability and understandability of various systems with a focus on improving developer productivity and system sustenance.
• Communicate effectively with the team, partners and stakeholders.
• Mentor other engineers, define our challenging technical culture, and help to build a fast-growing team.
• Collaborate with the open-source community to participate in cutting-edge projects (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Apache Airflow, Apache Flink).
• Deliver incremental impact by driving innovation while iteratively building and shipping software at scale.
• Diagnose technical problems, debug in production environments, and automate routine tasks.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend Systems Infrastructure

Java/Golang/Rust/Python

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

S3

Azure

Iceberg

Spark

Flink

Trino

Airflow

Kubernetes

GraphQL

GRPC

Kafka

Pinot

ClickHouse

Cassandra

Job description

LinkedIn in Mountain View is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the next-generation distributed infrastructure powering our AI-first products. You will design and optimize large-scale systems, work on data storage, streaming, and analytics platforms, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, scalable experiences.

You will engage with open-source communities, mentor engineers, and help shape our technical culture.