Senior Network Engineer

LinkedIn•Mountain View, CA

5h•Hybrid

About The Position

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Their products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. LinkedIn is committed to providing transformational opportunities for its own employees by investing in their growth and aspires to create a culture built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun. The company's approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of the business. This role is hybrid and will be based in Mountain View, CA. The Data Center & Core Network Engineering team is responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, and maintaining robust network infrastructures for data centers and DCI optical networks, ensuring seamless connectivity, security, and reliability within campus and across global data center networks. They also develop tools and automate processes to support hypergrowth. As a Senior Network Engineer, the individual will play a pivotal role as a technical leader and exemplar within the team, implementing and supporting networking technology solutions aligned with business and technical goals, keeping up with cutting-edge networking research, fostering collaboration across teams, and balancing competing priorities. The role requires proficiency in both networking and automation engineering.

Requirements

BA/BS Degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
3+ years of industry experience in network and data center engineering in hyperscalers environment.
3+ years of experience with programming languages like Python, Go, or other scripting languages.
Experience with network protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP, MPLS, RDMA, network overlay technologies, and network-based Quality of Service (QoS).
Knowledge in Kubernetes, host networking, host TCP tuning, and HPC networking.
Experience in network congestion control solutions such as QoS, DCTCP/ECN, and eBPF.
Experience with network management, configuration generation and provisioning systems and tools, e.g. Ansible, REST/gRPC, NETCONF, Jenkins, Puppet, YANG, OpenConfig, etc.

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree in a technical discipline
Experience in evaluating and deploying new HW platforms and SWs to solve DC growth and operational challenges.
Experience in designing and deploying network infrastructure for HPC workloads.
Experience in hardware and software testing using IXIA or other testing platforms.
Experience in building AI/ML network infrastructure, e.g. Infiniband and RoCEv2 networking.

Responsibilities

Review architectures, network designs, automated network provisioning and tools, and provide recommendations for continuous improvements in all aspects of the network, including network performance, capacity, reliability, and observability.
Design, deploy, and operate a large-scale network for data center infrastructure and backbone across multiple geographical regions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align implementation with business objectives.
Perform network maintenance and upgrades.
Identify gaps and develop solutions to automate deployments and auto-remediate network faults.
Participate and resolve Network Security and Compliance issues.
Participate in on-call rotation, resolve network outages, conduct post-mortems and remediation plans.
Evaluate new platforms to address scaling challenges and drive requirements with OEMs/ODMs to support our technology stack.