Senior Software Engineer, Data Science

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Data
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Software Engineer, Data Science

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Data Science to join their dynamic team. As part of the Data Science team, you'll leverage big data to empower business decisions and deliver data-driven insights, metrics, and tools that drive member engagement, business growth, and monetization efforts. With over 800 million members globally, LinkedIn offers unique opportunities to make significant impact.

The role combines technical expertise with business acumen, requiring you to work closely with cross-functional teams including product, marketing, sales, engineering, and operations. You'll be responsible for developing infrastructure and delivering tools that enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Key aspects of the role include building and managing complex data systems, designing efficient data pipelines, establishing programming patterns, and ensuring best practices in the data ecosystem. You'll need to be both technically proficient and business-savvy, with the ability to understand analytical objectives and translate them into actionable insights.

The position offers a hybrid work environment, allowing flexibility to work both remotely and from LinkedIn offices. You'll be part of a culture that values collaboration, innovation, and professional growth. LinkedIn's commitment to creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce means your work will have meaningful impact at scale.

This is an excellent opportunity for a data professional who wants to work with cutting-edge technology, handle massive datasets, and contribute to products that shape the future of professional networking. The role offers the chance to work with a talented team while developing solutions that directly impact LinkedIn's 800+ million members worldwide.

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Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, Data Science

  • Work with high-performing data science professionals and cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities and build scalable data solutions
  • Build data expertise and manage complex data systems for products
  • Perform data transformations to serve products that empower data-driven decision making
  • Build and manage data pipelines, design and architect databases
  • Establish efficient design and programming patterns
  • Design, implement, integrate and document performant systems for data flows
  • Ensure best practices and standards in data ecosystem
  • Understand analytical objectives to make logical recommendations
  • Engage with internal platform teams to prototype and validate tools
  • Be a self-starter and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
  • Contribute to engineering innovations that fuel LinkedIn's vision and mission

Requirements For Senior Software Engineer, Data Science

Python
Java
Scala
  • Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer science, Statistics, Operations Research, Informatics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics, etc.)
  • 5+ years of relevant industry or academia experience working with large amounts of data
  • Experience with SQL/Relational databases
  • Background in at least one programming languages (e.g., R, Python, Java, Scala, PHP)

Benefits For Senior Software Engineer, Data Science

Medical Insurance
Parental Leave
  • Health and wellness programs
  • Generous time away policies

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