Director, Software Engineering, Site Reliability
Description For Director, Software Engineering, Site Reliability
LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, is seeking a strategic Director for their Site Reliability Engineering team in Bengaluru, India. This is a pivotal leadership role where you'll drive the reliability and scalability of LinkedIn's critical infrastructure systems.
As the Director of SRE, you'll lead a team of 40+ engineers, focusing on ensuring the reliability of LinkedIn's streaming, batch processing, data lake, and online serving document store ecosystems. You'll be responsible for setting the strategic vision and technical direction while developing comprehensive execution roadmaps that align with business objectives.
The role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership skills, with a focus on cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. You'll be instrumental in driving APIs-first approaches, implementing infrastructure as code, and establishing robust observability practices. Your team will be at the forefront of managing LinkedIn's complex distributed systems, ensuring they scale effectively to meet the platform's growing demands.
Key aspects of the role include collaborating with software development teams, driving automation initiatives to reduce operational toil, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. You'll need to balance technical depth with strategic thinking, as you'll be responsible for both tactical execution and long-term planning.
LinkedIn offers a flexible hybrid work environment, combining remote work with in-office collaboration. The company is committed to creating a culture built on trust, care, and inclusion, where employees can thrive and grow professionally. This role presents an exceptional opportunity to impact millions of professionals worldwide while working with cutting-edge technologies at scale.
The ideal candidate will bring 15+ years of engineering leadership experience, with deep expertise in dev/ops and infrastructure management. You'll need to demonstrate success in leading large engineering teams, implementing scalable solutions, and driving technical innovation in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities For Director, Software Engineering, Site Reliability
- Set the strategic vision, technical direction and develop execution roadmap for the organization
- Build and maintain a high-performing engineering team of 40+ SREs
- Drive APIs first approach for operations of infrastructure life cycle management
- Provide observability and deep actionable insights into infrastructure health and drift
- Drive automation, reduce operational toil, and foster culture of continuous improvement
- Collaborate closely with software development teams to ensure reliability of LinkedIn's streaming, batch processing, data lake and online serving document store ecosystems
Requirements For Director, Software Engineering, Site Reliability
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 15+ years in Engineering leadership focused on dev/ops based roles leading teams of engineers of size 40+
- 8+ years of building software to simplifying operations and reducing toil in managing large scale infrastructure
- 8+ years experience in Cloud data infrastructure, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Hadoop infrastructure or equivalent
- Proficiency in cloud computing platforms, Linux-based systems, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools
Benefits For Director, Software Engineering, Site Reliability
- Flexible work arrangements with hybrid work model
- Investment in employee growth and development
- Culture built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun
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