Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.
Distributed Systems
Staff Software Engineer
Hybrid
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Systems Infrastructure team in Bangalore. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on next-generation infrastructure and platforms that power LinkedIn's services at massive scale. The position involves building critical systems including application delivery platforms, scalable data storage, cutting-edge search platforms, AI infrastructure, experimentation platforms, and privacy/compliance systems.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll be working with industry-leading technologies and contributing to LinkedIn's impressive portfolio of open-source projects like Apache Kafka, Pinot, and Samza. The role combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking, as you'll be responsible for designing solutions that impact LinkedIn's entire technical infrastructure.

The position offers a unique blend of technical challenges, dealing with extreme scale systems while maintaining high performance and reliability. You'll be part of a culture that values trust, inclusion, and innovation, with the flexibility of hybrid work arrangements. The role provides opportunities to mentor others, influence open-source projects, and make significant technical decisions that shape LinkedIn's infrastructure future.

This is an ideal opportunity for experienced engineers passionate about distributed systems, who want to work on technology that impacts hundreds of millions of professionals worldwide. You'll be joining a company with a strong engineering culture, committed to open source, and focused on building solutions that create economic opportunities for the global workforce.

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Responsibilities For Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

  • Own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful approaches
  • Design, implement, and optimize large-scale distributed systems
  • Improve system observability and developer productivity
  • Communicate effectively with team, partners and stakeholders
  • Mentor other engineers and help build the team
  • Work with open-source community and influence projects
  • Drive innovation while iteratively building and shipping software at scale
  • Diagnose technical problems and debug production environments

Requirements For Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

Java
Python
Go
Kafka
Kubernetes
  • BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
  • 8+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
  • 8+ years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, Python, Go and/or Functional languages like Scala
  • Hands on experience developing distributed systems, large-scale systems, databases and/or Backend APIs
  • Experience with Hadoop Ecosystem (preferred)
  • Experience with open-source project management and governance (preferred)
  • Experience in architecting, building, and running large-scale systems (preferred)

Benefits For Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

Medical Insurance
Parental Leave
  • Health and wellness programs
  • Generous time away policies
  • Trust-based work culture
  • Hybrid work options

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