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This role will be based in Bengaluru, India.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer of the Compute Infrastructure team at LinkedIn, you will play a crucial role in our ongoing efforts to re-architect our compute infrastructure stack. This is a high-profile, high-impact project that will touch every aspect of our engineering organization. We are looking for experienced professionals who have a proven track record of designing large-scale compute infrastructure and driving consensus.

In this role, you will design and implement solutions that enable LinkedIn to scale its compute infrastructure to meet the demands of a rapidly growing user base. This will involve working closely with a team of experienced engineers to develop and operate solutions that are robust, scalable, and efficient. You will also need to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

If you are passionate about building the underlying technology that powers one of the world's most-used internet applications, and have the skills and experience to help us take our compute infrastructure to the next level, we want to hear from you. Apply now to join our team and help shape the future of LinkedIn.

Responsibilities:

• You will design, build and operate parts of LinkedIn’s Compute Infra platform.

• You will participate in design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards.

• You will partner with peers, leads and internal customers to define scope, prioritise and build impactful features at a high velocity.

• You will mentor other engineers and will help build a fast-growing team.

• You will ensure Kubernetes fits seamlessly into LinkedIn’s Infrastructure stack and the thousands of LinkedIn developers that will leverage it each day find it’s offerings comprehensive and their transition to it smooth

• You will ensure LinkedIn’s core scheduling/deployment infra stack’s offerings stay close to the industry’s bleeding edge while being secure, highly performant and with effective resource utilisation

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.

• 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions

• 5+ years experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go, Rust, C# and/or Functional languages such as Scala or other relevant coding languages

• Hands on experience developing distributed systems, large-scale systems, databases and/or Backend APIs

• Experience building and operating a Kubernetes infrastructure platform

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building large-scale compute infrastructure platforms and distributed systems

• Demonstrated understanding of operating system fundamentals, container technologies, and systems knowledge

• Core development experience with industry, open-source projects and/or academic research in container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, OpenShift etc.

• Experience with open-source project management and governance

Suggested Skills:

• Distributed Systems

• Golang

• Kubernetes

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