Senior Staff Software Engineer - Applications (Video Team)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

This role will be based in New York, NY or Mountain View, CA.

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.

We build the end‑to‑end systems and member experiences that help professionals create, discover, and engage with high‑quality video and timely, trustworthy news on LinkedIn. Our work connects people to the ideas, stories, and voices shaping the professional world.

Responsibilities:

• You will deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale

• You will provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization

• You will actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies 

• You will design products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions

• You will identify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems

• You will work closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmap

• You will resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture

• You will review others’ work and share knowledge

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience 

• 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.

• 5+ years programming experience in languages such as Python, Java, Javascript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Ruby, etc

• 2+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position

Preferred Qualifications:

• 13+ years’ experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position

• 8+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures

• 13+ years programming experience in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C/C++

• Experience with large-scale AI distributed systems and client-server architectures

• Experience leading by influence, formulating and driving technical strategies across various organizations 

• Experience leading a large organization

• Worked in short form video experiences like Instagram, TikTok or Snapchat.

Suggested Skills:

• Technical Leadership

• Architectural Mastery

• Code Review and Quality Assurance

• Cross-organizational collaboration

• Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing

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 $181,000 - $297,000. 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: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants w