Principal Staff Software Engineer - Validation & Resilience Engineering

LinkedIn is seeking a Principal Staff Software Engineer to join their Validation Engineering team, focusing on building high-quality products and services to ensure the health and reliability of LinkedIn at scale. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on development, requiring expertise in distributed systems and validation infrastructure.

The position involves driving technical direction and development of cutting-edge validation and resilience infrastructure, while also shaping organizational strategy as LinkedIn's business and technology landscapes evolve. You'll work closely with engineers and partners across the company, from product to infrastructure teams.

Key responsibilities include developing comprehensive validation strategies, driving platform initiatives, and ensuring high change velocity while maintaining system reliability. You'll represent the organization in technical leadership forums and work on preventing change-based impacts across LinkedIn's engineering ecosystem.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in distributed systems, proven leadership experience, and the ability to drive strategic initiatives. You'll need to understand complex technical stacks, challenge status quo, and find creative solutions to accelerate progress while maintaining system integrity.

This hybrid role offers competitive compensation ($218,000 - $357,000) and comprehensive benefits. You'll be part of LinkedIn's culture built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun, working to transform how the world works while ensuring system reliability and engineering excellence.