Senior Staff Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer - LMS

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

Team Description:

LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) is a leader in B2B digital advertising, helping companies deliver the right message, to the right audience, on a safe and trusted platform. Through our suite of innovative advertising solutions, we provide customers with high reach and ROI. Lead generation is a central focus for any organization that’s interested in driving consistent and reliable revenue. The Ads Trust Engineering team within LMS is responsible for creating a safe and trusted ads platform for members, advertisers, and partners to get the best return on investment towards the ad revenue spend objectives on LinkedIn. This team provides scalable solutions using AI models towards accurate and faster review SLAs, Compliance adherence to regulations, improving Ads traffic quality as well as build best in the industry brand safety solutions.

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.

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the team. We are looking for someone who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, aligns points of view across teams and makes smart tradeoffs to help achieve the goals of individual teams as well as LinkedIn's broader goals. This leader will foster LinkedIn's culture and values around transformation, collaboration, and results.

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization.
• Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.
• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities and collaborate with cross functional teams to design and build scalable platforms/products/services/tools and to improve engineering - productivity in the organization.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
• Resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture.
• Review others' work and share knowledge.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Engineering degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 5+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position.
• 10+ years of experience with object oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.).
• 8+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, understand the product priorities, think with the big picture and solve core problems in the most efficient way.
• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale & strong object oriented skills.
• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience building web applications and services with IDEs, ant, Junit, etc.
• Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.

Suggested Skills:

• Technical Leadership
• Distributed Systems
• Software Design
• Technical Communication
• Cross-organizational collaboration

Additional Information

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Experience Level

Senior Level