LinkedIn is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join their Validation & Resilience Engineering team. This is a key technical leadership role focused on ensuring the health and reliability of LinkedIn's systems at scale. The position offers an opportunity to work on cutting-edge validation tooling and infrastructure while shaping the strategic direction of the organization.
The role involves leading the technical roadmap for infrastructure validation, working closely with teams across LinkedIn to maintain high change velocity while preventing impacts to members, customers, and employees. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing systems that help prevent defects early in the SDLC process and automate solutions for engineers.
As a technical leader, you'll represent the resilience and validation organization in infrastructure leadership forums, review architecture and code, and mentor other engineers. The position requires deep technical expertise in distributed systems, infrastructure, and validation strategies, combined with strong leadership skills.
The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of software development experience, with significant time in technical leadership roles. You should have extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, operating systems, and container technologies. Knowledge of languages like Java, Python, Go, or Rust is essential.
LinkedIn offers competitive compensation including base salary, annual bonus, and equity, along with comprehensive benefits. The company culture emphasizes trust, inclusion, and professional growth. This hybrid role is based in Mountain View, CA, combining remote work with in-office collaboration.
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior technical leader to make a significant impact on LinkedIn's infrastructure reliability while working with cutting-edge technologies and talented engineers across the organization.