LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed. It inspires us to invest in our talent and support career growth. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters.This role will be based in Mountain View, CA. At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.As part of our world-class software engineering team, you will be charged with building the next-generation infrastructure and platforms for LinkedIn, including but not limited to: an application and service delivery platform, massively scalable data storage and replication systems, cutting-edge search platform, best-in-class AI platform, experimentation platform, privacy and compliance platform, and service and language infrastructure. You will work and learn among the best, putting to use your passion for distributed technologies and algorithms, API design and systems-design, and your passion for writing code that performs at an extreme scale. LinkedIn has already pioneered well-known open-source infrastructure projects like Apache Kafka, Pinot, Azkaban, Samza, Venice, Datahub, Feather etc. We also work with industry standard open source infrastructure products like Kubernetes, gRPC and GraphQL - come join our infrastructure teams and share the knowledge with a broader community while making a real impact within our company.Responsibilities:
You will design, build and operate one of the infrastructure platforms that power all of Linkedin’s core applications.
You will participate in design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards.
You will partner with peers, leads and internal customers to define scope, prioritize and build impactful features at a high velocity.
You will mentor other engineers and will help build a fast-growing team.
You will work closely with the open-source community to participate and influence cutting edge open-source projects.
Basic Qualifications:
BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
2+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
2+ years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Python, Go, and/or Rust
Hands on experience developing distributed systems, large-scale systems, databases and/or Backend APIs
Preferred Qualifications:
BS and 5+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 4+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 2+ years of relevant work experience
Experience in architecting, building, and running large-scale distributed systems
Experience with industry, opensource, and/or academic research in technologies such as GraphQL, gRPC, Envoy Proxy, Kubernetes
Experience with interoperability with C and/or Rust, including Foreign Function Interface (FFI).
Hands-on experience with SideCar architecture
Experience with open-source project management and governance
Experience in building a language platform
Experience in improving the developer experience and enabling innovation.
Suggested Skills:
Distributed Systems
Python
Go
Rust
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