This role will be based in Mountain View, CA.
The Infrastructure TPM team drives large-scale modernization and migration initiatives across LinkedInâs advanced infrastructure, including in-house data storage and analytics systems, entity management platforms, query and serving layers, and experimentation platforms. The broader Online Infrastructure organization is responsible for building LinkedInâs next-generation platformsâspanning application and service delivery, compute, massively scalable storage and replication systems, search, AI/ML platforms, experimentation, and privacy and compliance.
In this role, you will work alongside some of the best engineers in the industry, applying deep systems thinking and technical judgment across distributed systems, APIs, and large-scale platform architectures. LinkedIn has pioneered and continues to maintain industry-leading open-source technologies such as Apache Kafka, Pinot, Samza, Azkaban, Venice, DataHub, and others, while also leveraging industry standards like Kubernetes, gRPC, and GraphQL. You will help shape programs that operate at extreme scale while contributing to technology that impacts millions of people globally.
Responsibilities:
- Provide clarity on product program objectives, ensuring that roles and responsibilities are well understood and address any conflict in a timely manner with minimal direction and assistance from management.
- Interact with executive sponsors and change agents to identify scope, requirements, and manage projects throughout the entirety of the project lifecycle.
- Facilitate and drive large cross-functional projects, serve the needs of multiple stakeholders within a complex multi-faceted organization, and manage that strategy through to completion.
- Apply formal change management practices that ensure that product programs are baselined at kickoff and all changes are thoroughly reviewed for justification impact to the program and have received appropriate approvals.
- Anticipate product program risks and issues and work to provide resolutions which ensure that stakeholder expectations are set appropriately.
- Communicate information to diverse audiences including translating subject matter terminology into clear business terms and program relevance.
- Facilitate straightforward decisions from complex situations that keep teams and projects moving forward.
- Establish and manage end-to-end processes with various stakeholders in collecting, evaluating and fulfilling their requirements.
- Demonstrate data analysis expertise to develop and communicate meaningful insights, define metrics, and make recommendations on key infrastructure scaling initiatives.
- Deliver solution design specifications and technical requirements for the development and improvement of capacity planning tools and automation.
- Apply business acumen to formulate practical and effective program management approaches to identify optimization opportunities, influence business partners, and drive effective decision making.
- Conduct âwhat-ifâ simulations and proactively identify potential capacity issues and partner with product and service owners to minimize risk and reduce cost-to-serve.
- Build and deliver impactful presentations that tell a persuasive story with convictive insights, not just data.
- Manage executive project expectations including owning escalation, communication, and exec level interaction on critical strategic projects for the company.