Senior Software Engineering Manager

Job Description

This role will be based in Bangalore, India. 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide organizational leadership by guiding multiple engineering teams in building, scaling, and delivering software products from conceptualization through deployment, ensuring alignment with company-wide objectives.
• Lead a team of software engineers and enable them to orchestrate the development of software products from conceptualization to deployment.
• Align with the organizational vision and provide technical insights to the team, recommending developments and continuous improvements to tools used in infrastructure observability.
• Support your team with design reviews and recommendations, leveraging your network domain expertise and programming skills.
• Collaborate with senior management to develop a long-term technology roadmap.
• Manage the performance and career development of a mid-sized team of engineers, overseeing significant parts of production network engineering products that require design, architecture, and coding.
• Strategically influence discussions within your team and with partner teams.
• Oversee the technical aspects of projects, including architecture design, code quality, and the integration of new technologies.
• Conduct performance reviews, set objectives, and facilitate career development plans for team members.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and regularly checked in for continuous integration.
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation within the team.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of hand-on industry experience in Software Development and 3+ years of Managerial experience
• 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.
• Hands on experience developing distributed systems, databases, large scale data systems and/or Backend API's
• Knowledge in Kubernetes, host networking and host TCP tuning
• Experience with Network management, configuration generation and provisioning systems and tools (Ansible, REST/gRPC, NETCONF, Jenkins, Puppet, YANG, OpenConfig, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering/technical management and people management experience
• 7+ years industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• Experience in Development of Observability Platforms for Infrastructure.
• Experience in architecting, building, and running large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with industry, opensource, and/or academic research in technologies such as Hadoop, cccccSpark, Kubernetes, Feather, GraphQL, GRPC, Apache Kafka, Pinot, Samza or Venice
• Experience with open-source project management and governance

Suggested Skills

• Distributed systems
• Backend Systems Infrastructure
• Java/Golang/Rust/Python