Senior Staff Software Engineer - Applications
LinkedIn · Posted Oct 2
Professional networking, job search, recruiting, online learning, and B2B marketing services
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About the role
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce, with products that help people make connections, discover opportunities, build skills, and gain insights. This Sr. Staff Software Engineer role is a key technical leadership position on the Applications engineering team, focused on designing and developing technology that serves business and technology objectives while aligning points of view across teams. The role involves scaling distributed applications, making architectural trade-offs, writing and reviewing code, and providing architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization.
What you will do
- Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization.
- Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
- Scale distributed applications, 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.
- Resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture.
- Review others' work and share knowledge.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Engineering degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
- 5+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position.
Preferred qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position.
- 10+ years of experience with object oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.).
- 8+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, understand the product priorities, think with the big picture and solve core problems in the most efficient way.
- Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale & strong object oriented skills.
- Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Experience building web applications and services with IDEs, ant, Junit, etc.
- Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.
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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