Principal Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

- You will build and ship software, drive architectural decisions and implementation across the

BigData ecosystem that includes compute engines, processing pipelines, storage, observability,

compliance.etc.

- You will design the right interfaces/APIs for long term evolution of the services.

- You will be responsible for the high availability, reliability, scalability and performance of these

systems

- You will invest in growing junior engineers with a high craft bar.

- You will actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and

defining best strategies.

- You will lead cross team/cross functional discussions and drive alignment on product/technology

strategy. You will work closely with other stakeholders to drive intra-team alignment.

- You will be a primary domain expert to influence technology choices.

Basic Qualifications:

- BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical

experience

- 18+ years of programming experience in C++, Rust or similar systems programming languages

- 18+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, applications or similar experience

Preferred Qualifications:

- MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.

- Experience with strategic planning, executing on a long term roadmap, team development and

scaling processes to support business growth.

- Designing and building infrastructure and backend services at internet scale.

- Building and shipping high quality work while achieving high reliability.

- Utilizing data and analysis in articulating technical problems and in arriving at recommendations

and solutions.

- Leading high-impact cross-org initiatives

- Expertise in model inference or online model serving systems