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Principal Staff Software Engineer, Development Infrastructure

Bellevue, WA, United States · Principal · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$226k-$369kDetected 116 days ago
JavaC++C#CI/CDLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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odds of building a lasting career here

61Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.

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H-1B wage level

the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry

Level IV · 4×
Level I$111,6131 entry
Level II$143,1042 entries
Level III$174,5953 entries
Level IV$206,0864 entries

This range already reaches Level IV — the maximum four lottery entries.

DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.

Employer immigration record

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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 110 green-card filings in this occupation, 98% were for a worker who already held the job.

Green-card follow-through: 88%

Of 120 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 15 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 493 days.99% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.

Reported a layoff in this occupation

In a green-card filing decided 2026-06-17, this employer stated it had laid off workers in Software Developers (CA) during the preceding six months. 3 such filings on record.Describes the period before that filing, not necessarily today. Unlike WARN notices this is occupation-specific and federal.

Files H-1B transfers

233 transfer filings in the last year, covering 1907 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

Sourced from Department of Labor LCA, PERM and prevailing-wage disclosure data. Employer matching is by name, so figures may be split across an employer's legal entities. Absence of a filing means none appears in our copy of the data, not that none exists.

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About the role

  • This role will be based in Bellevue, WA.
  • At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business.

Responsibilities

  • Work across Engineering to build relationships with other teams and use their feedback and understand their goals to build and prioritize a strategy and roadmap for your team, and for products that may span multiple teams.
  • Own the design, development, testing, deployment and craft of your team's infrastructure and systems, with high reliability and scalability.
  • Build operational excellence roadmaps, drive adoption of best practices from design to delivery, and improve developer feature/code velocity.
  • Dream big. Make big, bold moves to define and build the next generation of developer infra and inspire others to do the same
  • Deep understanding of the Software development Life Cycle and related build and test systems.
  • Experience attracting, retaining, and developing engineering and operations talent throughout the industry
  • Experience developing technical strategy
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Requirements

  • BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
  • 10+ years of programming experience in Java, C++, C# or similar programming languages
  • 7+ years of experience building large-scale distributed applications
  • 7+ years in a technical leadership role overseeing large, cross-functional teams.
  • 3+ years of experience building developer infrastructure and services, including development and code collaboration environments, CI/CD platforms, and measuring software development productivity and quality.

Nice to have

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to communicate technical strategy and roadmap in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
  • Masters degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
  • Shipped several large-scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
  • Engagement in coaching and mentoring fellow engineers in their careers
  • Suggested Skills
  • Technical Leadership
  • Developer Tools & Automation
  • Quality & Testing Infrastructure

Skills

  • Join us to transform the way the world works.
  • The Development infrastructure (DI) organization has the mission of making everyone in LinkedIn R&D more productive and successful.

Compensation

  • As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
  • The pay range for this role is $226,000 to $369,000.

Benefits

  • You will Benefit from our Culture
  • That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels.

Company info

  • Equal Opportunity Statement We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
  • Grow, develop, and mentor a team that provides engineering systems which enable all LinkedIn developers to build services for LinkedIn members and Enterprise customers productively, with consistently high quality, and with minimal friction.

Equal opportunity

  • 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.
  • LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities.
  • Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • in, 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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