Principal Staff Software Engineer, Development Infrastructure

LinkedIn•Bellevue, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role will be based in Bellevue, WA. At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. The Development infrastructure (DI) organization has the mission of making everyone in LinkedIn R&D more productive and successful. The charter includes all the core infrastructure to Discover, Write, Build, Test and Deploy code. As a Principal Staff Software Engineer within DI, you will help envision the next generation, agent centric, large scale, development infrastructure at LinkedIn, providing a delightful experience for our R&D teams. As a key member of this team, you will get an opportunity to influence, transform, and create an amazing experience for engineers at LinkedIn. You will identify, develop, and lead strategic investments to make development iterations faster and make step function improvements in the lives of developers. You will have the opportunity to engage the industry-wide developer community and contribute to open-source software as well. The successful candidate will be a strong thought leader in the developer productivity space.

Requirements

BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
10+ years of programming experience in Java, C++, C# or similar programming languages
7+ years of experience building large-scale distributed applications
7+ years in a technical leadership role overseeing large, cross-functional teams.
3+ years of experience building developer infrastructure and services, including development and code collaboration environments, CI/CD platforms, and measuring software development productivity and quality.

Nice To Haves

Dream big. Make big, bold moves to define and build the next generation of developer infra and inspire others to do the same
Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to communicate technical strategy and roadmap in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
Masters degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
Deep understanding of the Software development Life Cycle and related build and test systems.
Shipped several large-large projects with multiple dependencies across teams
Engagement in coaching and mentoring fellow engineers in their careers
Experience attracting, retaining, and developing engineering and operations talent throughout the industry

Responsibilities

Grow, develop, and mentor a team that provides engineering systems which enable all LinkedIn developers to build services for LinkedIn members and Enterprise customers productively, with consistently high quality, and with minimal friction.
Work across Engineering to build relationships with other teams and use their feedback and understand their goals to build and prioritize a strategy and roadmap for your team, and for products that may span multiple teams.
Own the design, development, testing, deployment and craft of your team’s infrastructure and systems, with high reliability and scalability.
Leverage your deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers and provide leadership on resolving complex technology issues.
Build operational excellence roadmaps, drive adoption of best practices from design to delivery, and improve developer feature/code velocity.