Principal Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

4 days ago


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India LinkedIn Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Staff Software Engineer to join our Systems Infrastructure team at LinkedIn. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for designing and building the next-generation information retrieval infrastructure and platforms for LinkedIn.

You will drive the technology vision and create business impact by putting to use your passion for very large scale information retrieval systems and software as a service and your passion for writing code that performs at an extreme scale.

Our team has already pioneered well-known open-source infrastructure projects like Apache Kafka, Pinot, Azkaban, Samza, Venice, Datahub, Feather, etc. We also work with industry standard open source infrastructure products like Kubernetes, GRPC and GraphQL.

As a Principal Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building and shipping software, driving architectural decisions and implementation across the BigData ecosystem that includes compute engines, processing pipelines, storage, observability, compliance, etc.

You will design the right interfaces/APIs for long term evolution of the services, be responsible for the high availability, reliability, scalability and performance of these systems, invest in growing junior engineers with a high craft bar, and 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, work closely with other stakeholders to drive intra-team alignment, and be a primary domain expert to influence technology choices.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and ship software, drive architectural decisions and implementation across the BigData ecosystem that includes compute engines, processing pipelines, storage, observability, compliance, etc.
  • Design the right interfaces/APIs for long term evolution of the services.
  • Be responsible for the high availability, reliability, scalability and performance of these systems.
  • Invest in growing junior engineers with a high craft bar.
  • Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
  • Lead cross team/cross functional discussions and drive alignment on product/technology strategy.
  • Work closely with other stakeholders to drive intra-team alignment.
  • Be a primary domain expert to influence technology choices.

Requirements:

  • BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
  • 18+ years of programming experience in C++, Rust or similar systems programming languages.
  • 18+ years experience building large-scale distributed systems, applications or similar experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
  • Experience with strategic planning, executing on a long term roadmap, team development and scaling processes to support business growth.
  • Designing and building infrastructure and backend services at internet scale.
  • Building and shipping high quality work while achieving high reliability.
  • Utilizing data and analysis in articulating technical problems and in arriving at recommendations and solutions.
  • Leading high-impact cross-org initiatives.
  • Expertise in model inference or online model serving systems.

Suggested Skills:

  • Large scale distributed systems.
  • Strategic thinking.
  • Information Retrieval.

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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