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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer - Systems... - **Company:** LinkedIn Corporation - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $144,000.0 - $236,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon S3, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Databases, Data Infrastructure, Data Structures, Software Debugging, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Object-Oriented Software Development, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Rust (Programming Language), Google Cloud, Concurrency, Apache Spark, Caching, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Flink, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Vertica, Functional Programming, Grpc, Web Api, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** July 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gdr39l ## About the Role + BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience. + 2+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions. + 2+ 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. Preferred Qualifications + BS and 5+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 4+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 2+ years of relevant work experience. + Experience in architecting, building, and running large-scale distributed systems. + Experience with industry, opensource, and/or academic research in technologies such as GCP, S3, Azure, Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Trino, Airflow, Kubernetes, GraphQL, GRPC, Kafka, Pinot, ClickHouse, or Cassandra. + Experience with open-source project management and governance. Suggested Skills: + Data Structures & Algorithms + Distributed Systems + Operating Systems + Cloud Computing ## 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 thats built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun where everyone can succeed. Join us to transform the way the world works. As part of our world-class software engineering team, you will help build the next-generation infrastructure and platforms that power LinkedIn's products, business, and AI-first future. This includes data infrastructure, storage systems, streaming platforms, traffic and network infrastructure, and other foundational platforms that enable reliable, scalable, and AI-first product experiences. Our infrastructure enables teams across LinkedIn to build, deploy, and operate AI-first products at scale. You will work on foundational systems that make it possible to process massive volumes of data, serve low-latency online experiences, power personalized and AI-first user experiences, and ensure reliability, security, privacy, and compliance across the full technology stack. We are building next-generation data infrastructure, including storage, streams, media, and analytics platforms. You will help scale LinkedIn's infrastructure to handle massive data growth across the LinkedIn ecosystem as we continue to grow our membership, products, and AI-first experiences. Bring your experience in distributed systems and algorithms, along with a strong systems orientation across concurrency, scalability, performance, caching, queuing, and distributed data storage. You should be excited to work on cutting-edge infrastructure systems that make a real impact at company scale. 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. Responsibilities + You will design, implement, and optimize the performance of large-scale distributed systems with security and compliance in mind. + You will Improve the observability and understandability of various systems with a focus on improving developer productivity and system sustenance. + You will effectively communicate with the team, partners and stakeholders. + You will work closely with the open-source community to participate and influence cutting edge open-source projects (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Apache Airflow, Apache Flink) + You will deliver incremental impact by driving innovation while iteratively building and shipping software at scale. + You will diagnose technical problems, debug in production environments, and automate routine tasks., A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response. LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information. San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 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