Director, Software Engineering, Site Reliability

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth.

As Director of Site Reliability Engineering, you will lead a strategic team of 40+ engineers focused on ensuring the reliability of LinkedIn's critical infrastructure systems. The role involves overseeing streaming, batch processing, data lake and online serving document store ecosystems.

Key Focus Areas:

• Setting strategic vision and technical direction for infrastructure reliability
• Building high-performing SRE teams and driving innovation culture
• Implementing API-first approaches for infrastructure lifecycle management
• Developing automated remediation systems
• Providing deep observability into infrastructure health
• Leading cloud platform initiatives across AWS/Azure/GCP
• Driving infrastructure-as-code practices
• Managing large-scale Kubernetes deployments

This is a unique opportunity to shape the reliability of systems at massive scale while working with cutting-edge technologies. The role offers significant scope for technical leadership and organizational impact through:

• Mentoring and growing engineering talent
• Driving architectural decisions for next-gen infrastructure
• Building partnerships across engineering teams
• Leading transformation initiatives

The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in distributed systems, proven leadership experience, and a passion for building reliable, scalable infrastructure. This role provides an excellent platform to drive innovation while working with world-class engineering teams in a culture focused on trust, care, inclusion and fun.