Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join their Traffic team. This role is crucial in delivering LinkedIn's products and services to over 1 Billion members worldwide, handling millions of requests per second.

The Traffic team operates at the edge of LinkedIn's data centers, managing a massive infrastructure that includes Layer 4 and Layer 7 network proxies, load balancers, service discovery, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines. As a Staff SRE, you'll be responsible for the health, performance, and capacity of critical Internet-facing services.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to work on highly visible projects that directly impact LinkedIn's site reliability and performance. You'll be developing tools and systems to improve deployment capabilities and monitoring in a large-scale Linux environment. The role requires deep technical expertise in systems operations, networking, and programming, with hands-on experience in technologies like Go, Python, Java, and Kubernetes.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in UNIX-based large-scale web operations, strong programming skills, and excellent communication abilities. You'll work in a collaborative environment, partnering with various teams to ensure platform operability and scalability.

LinkedIn offers a hybrid work environment, allowing you to balance remote work with office time in Sunnyvale, CA. You'll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence, while contributing to LinkedIn's mission of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.

Key responsibilities include managing service health and capacity, developing deployment tools, implementing monitoring solutions, and participating in on-call rotations. The role requires both technical depth and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

If you're passionate about large-scale systems, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and want to make an impact on a platform that serves billions of requests, this role offers an excellent opportunity to advance your career in site reliability engineering at one of the world's leading professional networks.