Principal Staff Software Engineer, Development Infrastructure

Bellevue, WA, United States · Principal · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$226k-$369kDetected 29 days ago

JavaC++C#CI/CDLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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The pay range for this role is $226,000 to $369,000.

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

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.

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

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