Software Engineering Manager, Core Storage

This role will be based in Bellevue, WA.

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.

Drive the development of LinkedIn's next-generation, public-cloud-grade blob storage platform. Guide the blob storage team to establish a scalable, durable, secure, and cost-effective storage foundation supporting LinkedIn's online services as well as offline data and AI operations. You will partner with defining the architectural vision and strategic roadmap, cultivate a high-performing engineering team, and collaborate with internal partners across LinkedIn to deliver high throughput, low latency, and scalable automated operations.

Construct an S3-compatible, public-cloud-grade blob storage system designed to support a wide range of LinkedIn workloads, such as Media, Ads, CTR, tracking events, analytics, AI/ML training, checkpointing, and artifact distribution. Streamline integration through seamless client adoption, robust multi-tenancy controls, quota management, and comprehensive observability. Optimize system performance by balancing throughput, latency, availability, durability, and cost using tailored replication and erasure-coding strategies. Scale capacity seamlessly to exabytes while reducing operational overhead through automated capacity management, self-healing recovery, continuous testing, and proactive rebalancing.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and manage core team of engineers working on building the infrastructure.

• Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap for the team and company.

• Have the ability to dive deep into technical discussions to challenge the status quo, and steer the team in the right direction/to push the envelope.

• Communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across engineering and business leadership.

• Help the team realize their potential by setting clear expectations, openly evaluating performance, upholding accountability, and providing challenges to stretch their skills.

• Drive a culture of operational excellence. Lead the team into defining performance goals, metrics and building the infrastructure and tooling necessary to maintain a high quality bar and detect issues in real time.

• Create an inclusive work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation and learning, while holding a high bar for quality.

• You will provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute critical, large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wide programs.

Department: Engineering
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level