Staff Software Engineer
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Job Description
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.
About the Team:
Our vision is to unlock the full richness of LinkedIn's Economic Graph by building the world's most comprehensive understanding of professional identities and the connections between them.
Our team owns LinkedIn's Knowledge Graph, a foundational AI platform powering over 100 internal teams and all major lines of business. We build large-scale AI models, data pipelines, and critical services that transform LinkedIn's data into high-quality, reusable professional intelligence. This includes standardizing core attributes such as skills, titles, companies, and geographic locations, as well as inferring deeper insights into members' expertise, professional relationships, organizational structures, and emerging trends.
By connecting and cross-pollinating intelligence across LinkedIn's ecosystem, our work powers products, AI models, and agent experiences across search, recommendations, advertising, and beyond, enabling richer insights, more personalized experiences, and differentiated capabilities.
Responsibilities
• You will drive the technical roadmap and architecture for an entire product area or major infrastructure domain, aligning engineering efforts with medium to long term business goals.
• You will design highly complex, multi-tiered distributed systems, making critical high-stakes choices regarding synchronous vs. asynchronous patterns, data storage, and third-party integrations.
• You are expected to identify, champion, and execute large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that fundamentally improve engineering productivity, system reliability, or operational costs.
• You will work with engineering directors, product leads, and cross-functional principals to define technical strategies and de-risk highly ambiguous product requirements.
• You will learn to navigate complex organizational dynamics, mastering the art of technical persuasion and driving consensus across divergent engineering teams.
• You will scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write 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.
• You will provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide critical programs.
• You will identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity.
Requirements
Department: Engineering
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level