Staff Enterprise Engineer (Storage)
LinkedIn · Posted Oct 13
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About the role
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, and this role sits within the enterprise engineering function responsible for the reliability of the company's global infrastructure. The position focuses on enterprise-scale storage and backup architectures across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure. The Staff Enterprise Engineer will own architectural design, operational management, automation with Python and PowerShell, and technical leadership for data protection and storage availability.
What you will do
- Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise storage and backup platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for storage, backup, recovery, and performance-related incidents.
- Plan and execute infrastructure deployments, upgrades, migrations, and technology refresh initiatives.
- Develop automation and operational tooling using Python and PowerShell to improve efficiency, consistency, and reliability.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, reporting, capacity planning, and performance management processes.
- Design and support high availability, disaster recovery, replication, and data protection solutions.
- Collaborate with cloud, virtualization, network, security, and application teams on infrastructure projects and operational initiatives.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and architectural standards.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers.
- Participate in a global on-call rotation and support critical production incidents.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ years of hands-on experience supporting enterprise storage, backup, or infrastructure platforms.
- Experience with enterprise storage and data protection technologies in production environments.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure services.
- Proficiency in automation and scripting using Python and PowerShell.
- Experience supporting business-critical production environments and participating in on-call rotations.
- Experience with troubleshooting, incident management, and root cause analysis.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Pure Storage, NetApp, Nasuni, Rubrik, Azure Backup, or similar enterprise platforms.
- Understanding of SAN, NAS, object storage, snapshots, replication, disaster recovery, and data lifecycle management.
- Knowledge of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, zoning, and multipathing.
- Experience supporting VMware, Hyper-V, or other virtualization platforms.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance optimization, operational reporting, and infrastructure monitoring.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical investigations and infrastructure initiatives.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
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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