This role will be hybrid in our Mountain View, CA or New York City, NY office location.

We are seeking a highly skilled Engineering Manager to join our Enterprise Innovation (EI) team in designing for the “Future of Work.” You will shape the future of employee productivity through large scale AI, automation, and SaaS (vendor and homegrown) systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement innovative solutions that enhance employee efficiency and the overall employee experience.

We are a data driven organization and you will lead strategic investments to make step function improvements in the lives of LinkedIn employees. This spans multiple areas including but not limited to: Providing tools and infrastructure that creates delightful employee experience; Provide and support application frameworks that empower LinkedIn employee to maximize productivity; Provide actionable insights that leverages data and metrics; Provide tools and data that help LinkedIn teams listen to their customers; and most importantly deliver reliable and scalable infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to engage the industry-wide employee productivity community and contribute to open-source software as well. This Software Engineering Manager role is part of the Enterprise Platforms, Infrastructure, and Collaboration (EPIC) org within EI. You will get an opportunity to influence, transform, and create an amazing experience for employees at LinkedIn by leading the team. The mission is to create an ecosystem that enables employees to deliver their products and services at LinkedIn at the highest quality they can.

Responsibilities

• You will manage the performance and career development of a small team of engineers (including software engineers, system engineers, enterprise engineers, and/or sysadmins), and own significant parts of internal LinkedIn products that require design, architecture, and coding.
• You will partner with senior management in owning responsibility for large scale vendor SaaS and on-prem solutions, including contract negotiations, solution design, and support optimization.
• You will provide thought leadership, develop and evangelize solutions to challenges faced by every individual and team at LinkedIn to improve employee happiness, productivity, and efficiency.
• You will scale the infrastructure and tools required to keep our ~30K employees and contingent workers in step as they collaborate in chat, docs, designs, reports, etc.
• You will participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap for LinkedIn’s enterprise platforms. You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craft.
• You will work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack. You will manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, review code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• You will develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
• You will produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Qualifications Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems 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 software and/or system engineering.
• Experience programming in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (like Java/Python/C/C++/Scala/Python/etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of hands-on software/system engineering/technical management and people management experience.
• 7+ years industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 2+ years programming experience in languages such as Java, C/C++, C#, Python, Go, etc.
• Experience designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and network programming.
• Experience working in a Unix environment (Linux preferred) and Windows.
• Experience in building and testing of highly reliable, available and scalable large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.
• Understanding of common performance patterns and anti-patterns in distributed systems.
• Successful track record of managing small teams of engineers to deliver multiple projects on time and with quality.
• Active involvement in the creation and execution of technical strategies and roadmaps.
• Hire and retain world-class engineers by providing career growth, mentoring, and high impact projects, while taking intelligent risks to improve the way work is done

Suggested Skills

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

Additional Information 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 - $248,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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