Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers.
$147,000 - $240,000
Site Reliability
Staff Software Engineer
Hybrid
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS
This job posting may no longer be active. You may be interested in these related jobs instead:
Senior DBA & Site Reliability Engineer

Senior DBA & Site Reliability Engineer position at Oracle Health, focusing on cloud infrastructure and database management for healthcare solutions.

Site Reliability Developer 4

Senior Site Reliability Developer position at Oracle focusing on infrastructure cloud services, automation, and system optimization.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Google Cloud Storage

Staff Site Reliability Engineer position at Google Cloud Storage, focusing on building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems with emphasis on reliability and performance optimization.

Site Reliability Developer 4

Senior Site Reliability Engineering role at Oracle focusing on cloud infrastructure automation and reliability, offering $206K+ and comprehensive benefits in Redwood City.

Senior Lead Software Engineer (SRE)

Senior Lead SRE position at Capital One focusing on cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and team leadership.

Description For Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed.

As a Staff Engineer in Site Reliability at LinkedIn, you'll be part of the Traffic SRE team, responsible for delivering LinkedIn products and services to over 1 Billion members. You'll work on a massive infrastructure that serves Millions of requests per second, developing and managing Layer 4 and Layer 7 network proxies, load balancers, service discovery, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines.

Your role will involve:

  • Being the primary point of contact for the health, performance, and capacity of Internet-facing services
  • Gaining deep knowledge of complex applications
  • Developing and deploying new features and installations
  • Creating tools for rapid deployment and effective monitoring in a large-scale Linux environment
  • Collaborating with partner teams to ensure platform operability
  • Thriving in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment
  • Participating in 24x7 rotation for second-tier escalations

To succeed in this role, you should have:

  • A B.S. or higher in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 2+ years of experience with Linux at scale
  • Strong programming skills in languages like Go, C/C++, Python, Rust, or Java
  • Experience with reverse proxies, load balancers, TCP/IP networking
  • Knowledge of data structures, databases, Linux internals, and web architecture

LinkedIn offers a competitive salary range of $147,000 to $240,000, along with equity and other benefits. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters and be part of a team that's shaping the future of professional networking!

Last updated 6 months ago

Responsibilities For Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

  • Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of one or more of our Internet-facing services
  • Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications
  • Develop and assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations
  • Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale linux environment
  • Work closely with partner teams to ensure that platforms are designed with 'operability' in mind
  • Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment
  • Participate in a 24x7 rotation for second-tier escalations

Requirements For Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

Linux
Go
Python
Java
  • B.S. or higher in Computer Science or other technical discipline, or related practical experience
  • 2+ years experience with operating and troubleshooting Linux at scale
  • Programming skills (Go, C/C++, Python, Rust, Java)

Interested in this job?