Senior Partner Solutions Engineer

Senior Partner Solutions Engineer

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

A Partner Solutions Engineer would have deep expertise in LinkedIn’s API products and technical solutions. You will develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders to launch new API products and help enterprise partners integrate. You will be responsible for enterprise partners CSAT, program health, and monthly enterprise partner operations review. You may drive adoption of LI’s API products in the marketplace by managing a portfolio of high touch enterprise partners or lead product adoption across a broad base. You will understand feature gaps in API, product, or partner offering and build solutions to address gaps and drive client success.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert, solution engineer, and program manager for enterprise partners, driving the adoption of LinkedIn API products.
• Build, test, and support scalable integrations by providing technical development, coding support, and architectural guidance to partners.
• Develop engineering prototypes that enable pilot partners and customers to create proof points for further Product-Eng investment at LinkedIn, including minor product updates or low-hanging fruits that delight partners and customers.
• Facilitate onboarding, testing, and pre-launch activities to ensure seamless partner experiences and successful product implementations.
• Collaborate with engineering and leadership teams at partner organizations to design and optimize platform integrations.
• Partner with Business Development and Product teams to accelerate adoption of new features and ensure partner success through effective launch programs.
• Advocate for enterprise partners by sharing insights and feedback to improve LinkedIn’s products and platform best practices.

 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience of REST APIs, HTTP, SDKs, and authentication protocols (e.g., OAuth2, OpenID Connect).
• Experience in open-source languages like Java, Python, Javascript, node.js, PHP or Ruby for rapid development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS and 7+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 6+ years of relevant work experience.
• Exceptional written, presentation, and oral communication skills, with the ability to create and present solutions to partners.
• Passion for creating and sharing developer-focused content online or at events.
• Deep understanding of developer ecosystems and developer communities.
• Experience working with legal and policy teams while developing software solutions.
• Experience integrating enterprise services, either as a consumer or provider.
• Experience managing external partners/customers and collaborating with product, business development, and engineering teams.
• Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in one or more of the following: Enterprise Architecture, SaaS Integration, API Management, PaaS and IaaS

Suggested Skills:

• Software development
• Prototype development
• Partner management
• Cross-functional teamwork
• Enterprise integrations

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

Additional Information

India Disability Policy 

LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. For more information on our equal opportunity policy, please visit https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/Policy_India_EqualOppPWD_9-12-2023.pdf

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates ​

Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.

Experience Level

Senior Level