Sr Manager, Software Engineering, Traffic

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun, where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA.

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.

As part of our world-class traffic infrastructure team, you will be at the forefront of handling every HTTP request reaching LinkedIn. You will be responsible for improving the traffic tier's reliability, security posture, operational rigor, and efficiency. In this specific role, you will be responsible for influencing the future of traffic by building a high-performance team and ensuring that good decisions are made.

Responsibilities

• Manage the performance and career development of a team of engineers, and own significant parts of LinkedIn traffic infrastructure that require design, architecture, and technical vision.
• Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap.
• Be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
• Manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, review code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, secure, and reliable systems that operate 24x7.

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering/technical management and people management.
• 10+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large-scale software engineering
• Experience programming in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java).

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 5+ years of software engineering management experience
• 2+ years exp managing managers
• Experience• Experience in building and managing traffic infrastructure using open-source software, such as ATS, HAProxy, or Envoy.
• Experience in working with legacy systems and codebases. migrating large-scale critical systems

Suggested Skills

• Technical Leadership
• People Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Traffic Infrastructure

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $180,000 to $300,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits

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