Principal Staff Software Engineer, Online Analytics Infrastructure

This role will be based in Sunnyvale.

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.

Team Description

At LinkedIn our Online Infrastructure organization powers systems and technologies that enable rich online access to LinkedIns economic graph data and insights for all of LinkedIns online features and capabilities. We do this by building cutting edge and innovative planet-scale HA systems and by relentlessly pursuing operational excellence and customer obsession to support LinkedIns product teams.

The Graph and Online Analytics Infrastructure group in the Online Infra organization is at the cutting edge of building online distributed databases and services that power real-time insights and graph traversals for our members directly and as critical real-time computations for our member-facing features like recommender systems targeting and personalization use cases.

As part of the Graph and Online Analytics Infrastructure group you will have the opportunity to devise and own our multi-year multi-systems Online Analytics strategy to support LinkedIns growth at this critical juncture of our AI transformation for our members customers and for ourselves.

You will be driving LinkedIns Online Analytics strategy and its implementation with the rigor and pragmatism demonstrated by your world-class expertise in the domain and prior successes in generating critical business outcomes. You will play a pivotal role in building systems and services in the domain developing talent augmenting culture of rigor and customer obsession and partner across Product Platforms Online Infra and across the company to realize the benefits of online and real-time analytics at scale. As the primary domain expert you are expected to provide technical leadership drive architectural decisions and implementation across the group.  You will research develop build and ship cutting edge technologies in partnership with the group to achieve Linkedin business goals. You will inculcate and reinforce rigor operational excellence and customer obsession in our group and our organization.

Responsibilities

• Architect Real-Time Analytics Platforms : Design and implement distributed query engines and APIs for sub-second latency across heterogeneous systems.
• Own and Evolve Core Systems : Drive the roadmap scalability and operational excellence of our existing web-scale analytics systems; ensure these systems meet future analytics demands.
• Drive Service and Operational Excellence : Define and drive service and operational excellence for online analytics services  at consumer-internet scale.
• Culture Builder : Establish and nurture a culture of customer obsession and business impact combined with high rigor technical craft and innovation.
• Cross-System Optimization : Lead architectural decisions for query planning caching and optimizations across multiple engines.
• Technical Leadership : Mentor senior engineers set technical standards and foster a culture of excellence.
• Industry Engagement : Represent the organization in real-time analytics forums

Qualifications : Basic Qualifications

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You will Benefit from our Culture

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The pay range for this role is $218000 to $357000. 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 Opportunity Statement

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Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Continuous Integration,Docker,Jenkins,Python,System Design,Agile,C / C++,Go,Systems Engineering,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Department / Functional Area : Engineering

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1