Distinguished Software Engineer, Reliability Infra

Distinguished Software Engineer, Reliability Infra

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun where everyone can succeed.

Job Description

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.

This role will be based in Sunnyvale, CA or San Francisco, CA.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical leader driving the long-term reliability and observability strategy across LinkedIn's infrastructure
• Re-architect LinkedIn's backend systems to enable granular failure domains and reduce the blast radius of incidents
• Design and implement next-generation failure mitigation strategies that avoid full-region or full-datacenter failovers
• Partner closely with across many different types of engineers to raise the bar for operational excellence and incident response
• Define and build frameworks to improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across hundreds of services and systems
• Define and own the roadmap of bringing observability to critical user journeys for LinkedIn's products to help capture and improve the experience of LinkedIn's members / customers
• Spearhead a multi-year initiative to transition LinkedIn's infrastructure to a regionalized model with localized failover, enhancing both scalability and availability
• Lead technical discussions on the future of Engineering at LinkedIn, what the function should evolve into over the next 3- 5 years
• Deliver key insights, executive level reporting across the cross-functional engineering teams to enable the right business decisions around improving quality and reliability of our services and products
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction across orgs, and contributing deeply to culture, hiring, and technical excellence
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
• Develop and maintain incident management processes and procedures to ensure timely resolution of issues and minimize impact on customers

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Information

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $238,000 to $390,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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