Job Specifications
Company Description
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.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
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 Mountain View, CA.
The GRID infrastructure, a comprehensive data processing and analytics ecosystem, manages LinkedIn's data lake and data pipelines, facilitating the movement and transformation of data from various sources. The team's charter encompasses batch data processing technologies like Hadoop, Spark, and Azkaban, as well as interactive analytics through Trino.
Responsibilities
Lead, coach and manage core team of engineers.
Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap for the team and company.
Have the ability to dive deep into technical discussions to challenge the status quo, and steer the team in the right direction/to push the envelope.
Communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across engineering and business leadership.
Help the team realize their potential by setting clear expectations, openly evaluating performance, upholding accountability, and providing challenges to stretch their skills.
Drive a culture of operational excellence.
Lead the team into defining performance goals, metrics and building the infrastructure and tooling necessary to maintain a high quality bar and detect issues in real time.
Create an inclusive work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation and learning, while holding a high bar for quality.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training.
5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large-scale distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
2+ years of hands-on software engineering/technical management and people management experience
7+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large-scale distributed systems.
5+ years programming experience in languages such as Java, C++, Python, or Go.
Experience in architecting, building, and running large-scale distributed systems.
Experience with big data processing technologies such as Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, Kubernetes, Airflow, or Trino.
Suggested Skills
Technical Leadership
Software Development
Software & System Design and Architecture
Stakeholder Management
You will Benefit from our Culture
We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels. LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $152,000 to $248,000. 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. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
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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