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 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 high reach and ROI.

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, improving Ads traffic quality as well as build best in the industry brand safety, suitability and viewability solutions. This team is also responsible for building and scaling solutions and experiences with 3rd party partners for LinkedIn through developer platform APIs.

As a Principal 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 trade offs 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.

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:

• You will build and ship software, drive architectural decisions and implementation across LMS teams.
• You will drive the adoption of cutting-edge solutions and methods to enable innovative marketing solutions products.
• You will actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
• You will lead cross team/cross-functional discussions and drive alignment on product/technology strategy.
• You will define the bar for quality and efficiency of software systems while balancing business impact, operational impact and cost benefits of design and architectural choices.

Qualifications Basic Qualifications:

• Engineering degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 18+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, applications or similar experience
• 8+ years of experience as an architect or technical leadership position

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with strategic planning, executing on a long term roadmap, team development and scaling processes to support business growth.
• Experience designing and building infrastructure and backend services at internet scale.
• Experience building and shipping high quality work while achieving high reliability.
• Experience utilizing data and analysis in articulating technical problems and in arriving at recommendations and solutions.
• Experience leading high-impact cross-org initiatives
• Experience in working with AI in consumer facing products

Suggested Skills:

• Technical Leadership
• Distributed Systems
• Cross-organizational collaboration
• Building large scale backend services
• Technical Leadership
• Ads domain expertise

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

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