Staff Software Engineer - Marketplace Integrity

Linkedin3; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a software engineer to join the Marketplace integrity team. You will scale distributed applications, build data pipelines, and deploy ML-based defenses to fight automation abuse across LinkedIn products.

The role requires strong coding skills, leadership, and the ability to drive large cross-functional programs. This is a hybrid role with select days in the office, offering a competitive compensation package focused on reliability and security.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience.
• 4+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 4+ years programming experience in languages such as Python, JavaScript, Javascript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Ruby, etc.
• 3+ years of experience in Trust and Safety, Anti-Abuse domain or similar.

Responsibilities

• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for CI.
• Provide technical leadership, driving best engineering practices for large-scale cross-functional programs.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Architectural Mastery

Code Review

Data analysis

Mentoring

Trust and Safety

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

Python

JavaScript

SQL

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.

About the Team:

As a member of the Marketplace integrity team, you will be responsible for building scalable systems, applications, data pipelines and product integrations that use machine learning and statistical models to automatically fight any form of automation abuse including scraping, AI-slop and Agent detection. Bot detection including agents is a key area of focus which blends the state of art detection mechanisms, requires integration with third party vendors that provides rich telemetry data and should scale across all of the linkedin products.

Responsibilities:

• You will scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, orchestrate code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• You will develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
• You will produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• You will provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide critical programs. Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 4+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 4+ years programming experience in languages such as Python, Java, Javascript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Ruby, etc.
• 3+ years of experience in Trust and Safety, Anti-Abuse domain or similar.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building applications, platforms for detection, mitigation of adversarial actors.
• Experience with working with massive amount of data to derive insights that can power decision making and steer the road map direction of the team.
• BS and 8+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 7+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 4+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale.
• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Proven coding skills in Python or JavaScript/AJAX, database design and SQL, and/or knowledge of TCP/IP and network programming.
• Experience building web applications and services with IDEs, ant, junit, etc.
• Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.

Suggested Skills:

• Technical Leadership
• Architectural Mastery
• Code Review and Quality Assurance
• Data analysis and insights
• Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing
• Trust and Safety

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 $156,000 - $255,000. 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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