Staff Software Engineer

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the team. We are looking for someone who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, aligns points of view across teams and makes smart trade offs to help achieve the goals of individual teams as well as LinkedIn's broader goals. This leader will foster LinkedIn's culture and values around transformation, collaboration and results. We are looking for engineers with deep expertise not just in building scalable APIs and services, but also in designing and managing high-throughput, data-intensive systems.

Responsibilities

• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.
• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities and collaborate with cross functional teams to design and build scalable platforms/products/services/tools and to improve engineering productivity in the organisation.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack

Preferred experience includes

• Proven experience in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems involving high-volume data processing.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, with a focus on data modeling, performance tuning, and operational reliability.
• Experience with real-time data streaming frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Beam etc.) and event-driven architectures.
• Deep understanding of system bottlenecks, data consistency trade-offs, and techniques for ensuring data integrity at scale.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience.
• 9+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 9+ years experience programming experience in Java and/or C++

Preferred Qualifications

• BS 10+ years of relevant work experience, MS 9+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD 7+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale & strong object oriented skills.
• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience with object oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Java, C++ etc.).

Suggested Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Distributed Systems
• Software Design

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