Staff Engineer

This role will be based in Bangalore, India.

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 whats best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale
- Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization - Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies - Design products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions - Identify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems - Work closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmap - Resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture - Review others work and share knowledge

Basic Qualifications:

- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 14+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions. - 14+ years of experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go, C# and/or Functional languages such as Scala or other relevant coding languages - Hands on experience developing distributed systems, large-scale systems, databases and/or Backend APIs - 14+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position - 5+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position

Preferred Qualifications:

- 5+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
- Experience leading a large organization - Experience leading by influence, formulating and driving technical strategies across various organizations

Suggested Skills:

- Distributed systems
- Backend Systems Infrastructure - Java