Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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.
At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.
The Triage Platforms team is responsible for reduction of T3R (Time to Trigger Resolution). We’re responsible for making sense of large amounts of data and determining proximate cause with precision and speed. We’ll leverage MELT (metrics, events, logs, traces) data + map them to our entity graph to determine when, where, why, and what happened.
Responsibilities:
• You will deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale
• You will provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization
• You will actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies
• You will design products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions
• You will identify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems
• You will work closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmap
• You will resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture
• You will review others’ work and share knowledge
Basic Qualifications:
• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 5+ years of programming experience in languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Ruby, etc.
• 2+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 10+ years’ experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position
• 5+ years’ experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
• 10+ years programming experience in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C/C++
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
• Experience leading by influence, formulating and driving technical strategies across various organizations
• Experience leading a large organization
Suggested Skills:
• Technical Leadership
• Architectural Mastery
• Code Review and Quality Assurance
• Cross-organizational collaboration
• Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing
You will Benefit from our Culture
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LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $175,000 - $288,000. 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.
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