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.

Overview:

Are you ready to shape the future of LinkedIn’s infrastructure? We're looking for a visionary Distinguished Engineer to join our dynamic Data Infrastructure team. With our focus on nearline systems, batch systems, observability, compliance and managed data science platforms we're critical to every aspect of LinkedIn products and committed to pushing the boundaries of what's possible. As a key member of our team, you will tackle complex technical challenges, design resilient architectures, and develop cutting-edge solutions that enhance LinkedIn’s platform for millions of users worldwide.

In this high-impact role, you'll have the opportunity to drive innovation, mentor engineering talent, and represent LinkedIn as a thought leader in the industry. If you have a passion for building scalable, high-performance systems and want to make a significant contribution to a company that values collaboration, growth, and excellence, we’d love to hear from you. Join us to redefine the standards of online infrastructure and deliver exceptional experiences to LinkedIn’s members and customers.

Job Description:

LinkedIn is seeking a Distinguished Engineer with deep expertise in Data Infrastructure, Platforms, and AI to provide technical leadership for the Data Infrastructure organization. The Data Infrastructure team delivers the specialized infrastructure required to run LinkedIn’s products, AI training and inference, business metrics and observability with high availability, scale and optimal performance. This leader will leverage their broad infrastructure knowledge to drive innovation, optimize performance, and enable superior user experiences that increase productivity and customer engagement.

Responsibilities:

Qualifications Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on infrastructure, distributed systems, or databases.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent research experience.

Suggested Skills:

• Mentoring
• Technical Leadership
• Machine Learning

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $248,000 to $406,000. 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.

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