Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Staff Software Engineer, where you'll develop innovative internal tooling to optimize capacity planning and utilization. This hybrid role offers the chance to work on scalable applications and distributed systems, ensuring high performance and reliability. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, advocate for customer success, and mentor junior engineers while driving best engineering practices. With a focus on trust and inclusion, this role provides an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid maternity leave

Child care support

Paid paternity leave

Student loan assistance

Tuition assistance

Disability insurance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in large scale software development.
• Strong knowledge of database design and optimization.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop distributed applications for capacity planning.
• Create robust APIs for seamless backend operations.
• Mentor junior engineers and improve engineering productivity.

Skills

Full-stack software development

API development

Database design

UI/UX design

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Education

BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

JIRA

Docker

Kubernetes

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.

This role will be based in LinkedIn's Mountain View, CA campus.
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.

We’re hiring a staff software engineer to develop and manage internal tooling (UI/CLI/API) to aid users in capacity planning and usage, to ensure that LinkedIn’s fleet achieves and maintains the desired utilization. Our team provides solutions that: empower teams to plan and obtain approval for significant hardware investments, inform teams about their cost and capacity utilization, and surface recommendations to improve their utilization of existing infrastructure.

Responsibilities:
· Analyze and Innovate: Evaluate the current state of systems, identify gaps and opportunities for improvement, and design high-impact solutions. Collaborate with stakeholders to align objectives, plan development, prioritize features, and execute with precision.
· Champion Customer Success: Advocate for customer outcomes, ensuring that solutions deliver measurable ROI and tangible business benefits.
· Architect and Build Distributed Systems: Design and develop distributed applications, making architectural decisions that balance synchronous and asynchronous design patterns. Write high-quality code, ensuring timely delivery with a focus on performance and reliability.
· Develop Scalable Applications: Build multi-tier, user-centric applications that are scalable, high-performing, and reliable, ensuring 24x7 uptime for mission-critical systems.
· Design APIs: Create robust APIs to support seamless backend operations, ensuring efficient data flow and system integration.
· Create Reusable UI/UX Components: Develop and maintain a consistent, reusable UX/UI pattern library to standardize common workflows such as search, list, CRUD operations, reporting, and analytics across applications.
· Create CLI Features: Develop CLI features that complement the UI workflows, providing users with a quick and easy way to list and view capacity information, update the settings of our tooling, etc.
· Ensure Code Quality and Best Practices: Deliver high-quality software that is thoroughly unit tested, code reviewed, and regularly integrated into the development pipeline for continuous integration.
· Provide Technical Leadership: Lead by example, establishing and driving best engineering practices to plan, initiate, and execute large-scale, cross-functional projects.
· Improve Engineering Productivity: Identify and champion opportunities to enhance engineering efficiency and productivity through process improvement, tool development, and knowledge sharing.
· Mentor and Develop Team Members: Mentor junior engineers, guiding them on coding standards, design patterns, and operational best practices to foster growth and improve team capability.
· Support Production Systems: Provide on-call and production support for deployed systems, ensuring operational stability and addressing issues promptly.

Basic Qualifications:
· BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
· 5+ Years of experience in large scale full-stack software development such as:
-Database design and development
-API development and integration
-UI design and development
-Distributed systems development
-Version control and software development collaboration tools

Preferred Qualifications:

Database design and development
· Strong knowledge of database design, data models, schema creation, and optimization.
· Expertise in relational, document-oriented and time series databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Couchbase, Cassandra, MongoDB)
· Experience with data migration, ETL processes, and database scaling for large datasets.

API Development and Integration
· Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs or GraphQL services.
· Strong understanding of API security, authentication (OAuth, JWT), and performance best practices.
· Experience in integrating third-party APIs and services.
· Proficiency in back-end languages (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js, Java) for building scalable services.

UI/UX Development
· Proficiency with front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).
· Experience with responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and web accessibility.
· Understanding of design principles and experience collaborating with UI/UX teams to implement intuitive user interfaces.
· Familiarity with front-end state management (e.g., Redux, Vuex) and component-based architecture.

CLI Development
· Experience designing, building, and maintaining a CLI application, in languages such as Go, Python, or Node.js.

Distributed Systems Development
· Experience building and deploying distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.
· Familiarity with microservices architecture, event-driven design, and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
· Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
· Experience with load balancing, caching, and scaling strategies to ensure high availability and performance.

Version Control and Collaboration Tools
· Proficiency with Git and experience in collaborative workflows (e.g., Pull Requests).
· Experience using issue tracking, CI/CD pipelines, and task management tools (e.g., JIRA, GitHub).

Suggested Skills:
· Technical Leadership
· API Development
· UI/UX Development
· Database design and development


LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $147,000 - $240,000. 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

-Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
-Having interviews in an accessible location
-Being accompanied by a service dog
-Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

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Seniority level

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  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

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  Technology, Information and Internet and IT Services and IT Consulting

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Medical insurance

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