Staff Software Engineer

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:

The Premium partnership team builds the engineering behind LinkedIn Premium’s partnerships. Our work does two things: it brings new members to Premium through our partners’ products, and it adds partner benefits to the Premium experience. Together, these open a new channel for bringing members into the LinkedIn ecosystem driving acquisition growth and deliver on high-stakes commitments to external partners.

You’d be successful in this role if you like ambiguity, think in systems and enjoy working directly with product, partner and cross-team stakeholders. You love changing the foundations of a system that’s already serving live traffic: building reusable integration patterns, and tools to launch new partners quickly. You also enjoy mentoring engineers and helping the team grow. If you want broad scope, visible impact and the chance to shape a team’s technical direction, Premium partnership is a great fit.

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.

Department: Engineering
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level