Staff Software Engineer - Systems and Infrastructure

Mountain View, CA, United States · Staff+ · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$175k-$287kDetected 4 days ago

PythonJavaGoRustC++C#ScalaDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsGCPAzureKubernetesGraphQLgRPCKafkaSparkAirflowProject ManagementResearch

About the role

Join us to transform the way the world works.
This includes data infrastructure, storage systems, streaming platforms, traffic and network infrastructure, and other foundational platforms that enable reliable, scalable, and AI-first product experiences.
You will help scale LinkedIn's infrastructure to handle massive data growth across the LinkedIn ecosystem as we continue to grow our membership, products, and AI-first experiences.

You will 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.
You will design, implement, and optimize the performance of large-scale distributed systems with security and compliance in mind.
You will effectively communicate with the team, partners and stakeholders.
You will deliver incremental impact by driving innovation while iteratively building and shipping software at scale.
4+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
Hands on experience developing distributed systems, large-scale systems, databases and/or Backend APIs.
Experience in architecting, building, and running large-scale distributed systems.
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BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
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.

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 with industry, open source, and/or academic research in technologies such as GCP, S3, Azure, Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Trino, Airflow, Kubernetes, GraphQL, GRPC, Kafka, Pinot, ClickHouse, or Cassandra.
Experience with open-source project management and governance.
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Distributed systems
Backend Systems Infrastructure
Java/Golang/Rust/Python
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