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.
This role will be hybrid in LinkedIn's Mountain View campus.
Team Description:
Our team is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating network software for data centers, inter-DC backbone and host networking stack that powers the LinkedIn economic graph. Our offering includes network operating system (SONiC), traffic engineering, intent-based configuration management, telemetry, and various systems helping with network packet forwarding and translation, monitoring, and operations.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the team. We are looking for someone who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, understands state-of-the-art networking research, aligns points of view across teams, and makes smart trade-offs. On top of the leadership skills, a successful Staff Software Engineer must exhibit strong technical skills both in software engineering and networking areas.
Responsibilities:
You will provide technical leadership and drive the full lifecycle of network software development at LinkedIn鈥攄esigning, developing, testing, operating, and continuously improving it to ensure scalability, high performance, and 24x7 reliability.
You will produce high-quality software that is unit-tested, code-reviewed, and regularly checked in for continuous integration.
You will collaborate closely with the network engineering and application teams to define the future direction of LinkedIn鈥檚 networking systems, leveraging state-of-the-art research in modern networking technologies and making informed trade-offs.
You will elevate the level of craftsmanship by developing best practices and mentoring other engineers.