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Manager, Software Engineering - Personalization Platform
Manager, Software Engineering - Personalization PlatformLinkedIn • Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Manager, Software Engineering - Personalization Platform

Manager, Software Engineering - Personalization Platform

LinkedIn • Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Manager, Software Engineering – Personalization Platform

  • Full‑time
  • Workplace Type : Hybrid
  • Location : Mountain View, CA

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, and the work location is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

You will lead the team responsible for building and evolving ’s personalization platform – the foundational infrastructure that enables every product team across to deliver personalized, intelligent, and context‑aware experiences to over a billion members and enterprise customers.

The personalization platform your team builds will make every interaction on more relevant, valuable, and effective – enabling members to discover the right opportunities, connect with the most meaningful people and content, and helping enterprise customers find and engage the right talent, leads, or learners. By empowering these experiences, the platform will help members be more productive and successful while enabling organizations to achieve their business goals more efficiently.

You will guide the design and development of scalable, intelligent systems that support personalization at both the member and enterprise level, including real‑time decisioning, contextual understanding, and adaptive user experiences. The systems your team builds will empower ’s product teams to rapidly experiment, learn, and deliver differentiated experiences that drive member satisfaction, engagement, and enterprise productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the performance and career development of a team of software engineers to design, build, and scale the personalization platform powering ’s product ecosystem.
  • Act as a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craft.
  • Partner closely with AI, data science, product, and infrastructure teams to define and execute the long‑term technical roadmap for personalization, experimentation, and growth.
  • Architect and scale distributed systems and services that power real‑time personalization, contextual decisioning, and fast experimentation across all products.
  • Build robust experimentation frameworks that enable rapid iteration and evidence‑based product development, partnering with growth teams to accelerate learning velocity.
  • Evolve the platform to leverage the latest in AI, machine learning, large language models (LLMs), and intelligent agents to deliver increasingly adaptive, context‑aware experiences.
  • Collaborate with product and design partners to ensure personalization systems help members achieve their professional goals and improve enterprise productivity outcomes.
  • Champion engineering excellence by setting high standards for system design, reliability, and developer productivity.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership to align platform strategy with product goals and drive measurable business impact.
  • Hire, grow, and retain top engineering talent, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and inclusion.
  • Basic Qualifications

  • BA / BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff‑level engineering experience with management training.
  • 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large‑scale software engineering.
  • Experience programming in object‑oriented and / or functional programming languages (Java, Python, C, C++, Scala, etc.).
  • 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.
  • 7+ years industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm‑related solutions.
  • 5+ years programming experience in languages such as Java, C / C++, C#, Python, Go, etc.
  • Proven experience designing and operating large‑scale, distributed systems and high‑availability services.
  • Deep understanding of experimentation, growth systems, and A / B testing frameworks.
  • Experience integrating or building personalization and recommendation systems leveraging AI / ML models.
  • Familiarity with modern ML platforms, real‑time data processing, and LLM / agent‑based personalization techniques.
  • Demonstrated success managing teams delivering high‑impact, cross‑functional platform initiatives.
  • Suggested Skills

  • Technical Leadership
  • Communication
  • Software Design
  • Cross‑organizational Collaboration
  • Experimentation and A / B Testing Systems
  • Machine Learning and AI Infrastructure
  • Product and Personalization Strategy
  • You Will Benefit From Our Culture

  • Generous health and wellness programs.
  • Time away for employees of all levels.
  • Fair and equitable compensation practices.
  • The pay range for this role is $147,000 – $240,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

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

    Equal Opportunity Statement

    We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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  • Having interviews in an accessible location.
  • Being accompanied by a service dog.
  • Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview.
  • 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.

    San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

    Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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