Principal Staff Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure & Data Quality
Description For Principal Staff Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure & Data Quality
LinkedIn is seeking a Principal Staff Software Engineer to lead their Data Infrastructure & Data Quality initiatives. This role represents a unique opportunity to shape the future of data management at one of the world's leading professional networking platforms.
The position combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, requiring someone who can architect and implement large-scale data systems while driving organizational change. You'll be responsible for building world-class solutions for data discovery, observability, and quality, working at the intersection of data infrastructure, distributed systems, and metadata intelligence.
As a Principal Staff Engineer, you'll lead the technical vision for data discovery and quality across LinkedIn, designing scalable systems that handle metadata, quality signals, and observability. The role requires both hands-on technical expertise and leadership skills, as you'll be setting engineering standards, mentoring other engineers, and driving cross-organizational initiatives.
The compensation package is highly competitive, ranging from $207,000 to $340,000, reflecting the senior nature of the position. LinkedIn offers a hybrid work environment, combining the flexibility of remote work with in-office collaboration. The company provides comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
The ideal candidate will bring 10+ years of software design experience, with at least 5 years in technical leadership. You should have deep expertise in data platforms, quality, and observability, along with experience leading initiatives in large, matrixed organizations. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on how LinkedIn manages and utilizes data across its platform, serving millions of professionals worldwide.
If you're passionate about data infrastructure, have a track record of technical leadership, and want to shape how one of the world's largest professional networks handles data, this role provides an excellent opportunity to drive innovation at scale.
Responsibilities For Principal Staff Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure & Data Quality
- Define and evolve the long-term technical vision for data discovery and data quality across the organization
- Design and lead implementation of scalable, low-latency systems for metadata, data quality signals, and observability
- Evaluate new architectures, tools, and frameworks—and lead their adoption across the platform
- Set engineering standards, guide system design reviews, and mentor other engineers
- Architect systems that unify structured and unstructured metadata
- Develop mechanisms to automatically assess data freshness, completeness, and reliability
- Drive improvements in system observability, monitoring, and alerting
- Lead efforts to improve system reliability, availability, and maintainability
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
- Champion best practices for software development, testing, and deployment
Requirements For Principal Staff Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure & Data Quality
- BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
- 10+ years of experience in software design, building solutions
- 5+ years in a technical leadership position
- Experience with data platforms, data discovery, data quality and data observability
- Experience leading and influencing within large, matrixed organization
- Experience leading high-impact, cross-organization initiatives
Benefits For Principal Staff Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure & Data Quality
- Flexible work arrangements
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