Software Engineering Manager, Systems Infrastructure, Development Infra

Company Description LinkedIn is the worlds 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. Were 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. Job Description 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 Bellevue office. We are a data driven organization and you will lead strategic investments to make step function improvements in the lives of LinkedIn developers. This spans multiple areas including but not limited to: Providing tools and infrastructure that creates delightful development experience; Provide and support application frameworks that empower LinkedIn Engineers to build member facing products; Provide actionable insights that leverages data and metrics; Provide tools and data that help LinkedIn teams listen to their customers; and most importantly deliver reliable and scalable infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to engage the industry-wide developer community and contribute to open-source software as well. This Software Engineering Manager role is part of the Quality Platforms team within DPX. You will get an opportunity to influence, transform, and create an amazing experience for developers at LinkedIn by leading the team and driving Quality charter to build testing tooling and infrastructure that serves the developer community within LinkedIn. The mission is to create an ecosystem that enables teams to deliver products and services at LinkedIn at the highest quality they can. Responsibilities You will build and ship software at scale that delivers impact. You will improve all aspects of developer experience with a data driven mindset. You will design and build tools and frameworks to automate development, testing, deployment, management, monitoring, data gathering and analysis of our 24x7 services and products. You will provide thought leadership, develop and evangelize solutions to challenges faced by every product and infrastructure team at LinkedIn to improve developer happiness, productivity, and efficiency. Design products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions You will scale the infrastructure and tools required to keep our 6000+ developers in step when they are all sharing the same code, building and testing our software stacks, and releasing and deploying their services continuously without compromising site reliability. Work closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmap You will review others' work, provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization, resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture. You will identify problems and opportunities and provide technical leadership, defining and undertaking best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute critical, large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wide programs. Qualifications Basic Qualifications BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience. 1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training 5+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions. 5+ years programming experience in object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java, Javascript, C/C++ Preferred Qualifications MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline 2+ years of hands-on software engineering/technical management and people management experience Experience in technology and strategic leadership role in a large organization Experience designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale. Knowledge of Internet protocols and network programming. Experience working in a Unix environment (Linux preferred). Experience in building and testing of highly reliable, available and scalable large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures. Experience in driving automated cloud management systems at scale. Experience in containerization, cluster schedulers, infrastructure configuration and orchestration. Experience in standard build tools (e.g. gradle, bazel) and version control systems (e.g. git). Experience in Python development using frameworks like Django, Flask, Jinja, SQLAlchemy. Knowledge and experience in Tomcat, Jetty, Netty, Apache/ATS, Scala/sbt, or Node.js. Experience in working with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g. MySQL, Dynamo, Cassandra, MongoDB) Experience in messaging & big data systems/solutions (e.g. Spark, Presto, Alation, Hadoop, Kafka) Suggested Skills Technical Leadership Communication Software Design Cross-organizational collaboration You will Benefit from our Culture We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $200,000 - $268,000 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 Additional Information Equal Opportunity Statement We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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