Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn is a professional networking platform that helps professionals connect, find opportunities, and build careers.
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their SFE (Security Features Engineering) team. This role is crucial in building highly reliable and scalable services and developer-friendly infrastructure that enable engineering teams across LinkedIn to create and integrate secure features while protecting member data.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be a key technical leader and role model within the team. You'll be responsible for designing and developing technology that serves both business and technology objectives, while aligning points of view across teams and making smart trade-offs to achieve individual team goals as well as LinkedIn's broader mission.

The role offers an exciting opportunity to work on infrastructure and security at scale, directly impacting millions of professionals worldwide. You'll be building scalable services using modern design patterns, producing high-quality code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve engineering productivity.

LinkedIn offers a hybrid work environment, allowing you to balance working from home and office based on what works best for you and your team. The company strongly believes in the well-being of employees and their families, offering generous health and wellness programs.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in Python and/or GoLang, with experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at scale. You should have expert knowledge of computer science fundamentals and a passion for mentoring other engineers.

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior engineer looking to make a significant impact at a company that transforms how professionals connect and grow their careers. You'll be working with cutting-edge technology while helping to secure and scale LinkedIn's infrastructure for its next phase of growth.

Last updated 3 months ago

Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer

  • Build scalable services and infrastructure using synchronous and asynchronous design patterns
  • Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly
  • Act as role model and professional coach for engineers
  • Identify and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity
  • Work with peers across teams to support and leverage shared technical stack
  • Design and develop technology to serve business and technology objectives

Requirements For Senior Software Engineer

Python
Go
  • BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience
  • 5+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
  • 4+ years programming experience in Python, and/or GoLang
  • Expert knowledge of computer science, data structures, algorithms, and software design
  • Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale
  • Experience with object oriented design, coding, testing patterns

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