Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn · Posted Oct 7
Professional networking, job search, recruiting, online learning, and B2B marketing services
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About the role
The SFE team builds highly reliable, scalable services and developer-friendly infrastructure that enable engineering teams across LinkedIn to create and integrate secure features and proactively protect members' data. The SPM team within SFE takes on infrastructure security challenges with a special focus on vulnerability management, detecting vulnerabilities across a large-scale infrastructure spanning half a million hosts, millions of containers, and all major cloud providers. This role is responsible for building and operating platforms that identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities across LinkedIn infrastructure, including hosts, cloud environments, and the container ecosystem.
What you will do
- Build scalable services and infrastructure, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
- Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
- You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.
- Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities and collaborate with cross functional teams to design and build scalable platforms/products/services/tools and to improve engineering productivity in the organization.
- Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience.
- 5+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
- 4+ years experience programming experience in Python, and/or GoLang
Preferred qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale & strong object oriented skills.
- Experience in cloud computing and infrastructure management
- Prior experience with infrastructure security
- Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Experience with object oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Python, GoLang etc.).
- Experience working with large scale databases & streaming infrastructure services
Benefits and support
- Generous health and wellness programs
- Time away for employees of all levels
About LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, connecting over a billion users globally to create economic opportunity. Owned by Microsoft, the platform provides tools for job searching, professional networking, B2B marketing, sales intelligence, and online learning. Through its data graph, it bridges the gap between global talent and enterprise organizations.
- Industry
- Professional Network
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2003-05-05
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $103.5M raised
- 2003-11-01Seed$4.7M
- 2004-08-01Series A$10M
- 2007-01-15Series B$53M
- 2008-06-01Series C$22.7M
- 2014-05-15Post Ipo Debt$500M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
EVP of LinkedIn and Microsoft Office
President of Platforms and Digital Work
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President & Chief Business Officer
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