Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

LinkedIn is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join their Traffic team, which is responsible for delivering LinkedIn's products and services to over 1 Billion members worldwide. This role sits at the critical intersection of infrastructure and scale, managing the edge of LinkedIn's data centers that handle millions of requests per second.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology stack including Layer 4 and Layer 7 network proxies, load balancers, service discovery systems, and modern monitoring solutions. You'll be part of a team that develops and maintains the crucial infrastructure that keeps LinkedIn's services running smoothly and efficiently.

As a Staff SRE, you'll take on significant technical leadership responsibilities, serving as the primary point person for the health and performance of key Internet-facing services. The role requires both deep technical expertise and strong collaboration skills, as you'll work closely with various engineering teams to ensure platforms are designed with operability in mind.

The position offers competitive compensation ($147,000-$240,000) and the flexibility of hybrid work based in Sunnyvale, CA. You'll be part of LinkedIn's mission to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce, while working on challenging technical problems at massive scale.

Key technical areas include Linux systems administration, network engineering, and software development in languages like Go, Python, and Java. You'll also gain exposure to modern infrastructure technologies like Kubernetes and various monitoring/observability tools.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineer who wants to work on challenging infrastructure problems at scale, while having significant impact on a platform that serves hundreds of millions of users. The role offers both technical depth and leadership opportunities in a collaborative, mission-driven environment.