Staff Data Scientist - Infrastructure

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 thats 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.

LinkedIn's Data Science team leverages big data to empower business decisions and deliver data-driven insights, metrics, and tools in order to drive member engagement, business growth, and monetization efforts. With over 1 billion members around the world, a focus on great user experience, and a mix of B2B and B2C programs, a career at LinkedIn offers countless ways for an ambitious data scientist to have an impact.

We are seeking a talented and driven individual to accelerate our efforts and contribute to LinkedIn's data-centric culture. In this role, you will tackle a wide range of technical challenges spanning products, engineering, research, data engineering, finance, and infrastructure. Leveraging data and analysis, you will address critical challenges within our infrastructure organization, shaping product strategy and guiding investment decisions with data-driven insights.

LinkedIn's infrastructure is the backbone of our operations, encompassing datacenters, servers, network infrastructure, power systems, and foundational software platforms that power our products and services.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of high-performing analytics, data science professionals, and cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities and develop algorithms and methodologies to address them.
• Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data.
• Develop methodologies to enhance LinkedIn's operations and platform capabilities.
• Apply technical expertise to our forecasting and capacity planning process to seek opportunities of improvement
• Engage with technology partners to build, prototype and validate scalable tools/applications end to end (backend, frontend, data) for converting data to insights.
• Promote and enable adoption of technical advances in Data Science; elevate the art of Data Science practice at LinkedIn.
• Improve LinkedIn's ability to measure and credibly speak to labor market trends and other economic phenomena.
• Initiate and drive projects to completion independently.
• Act as a thought partner to senior leaders to prioritize/scope projects, provide recommendations and evangelize data-driven business decisions in support of strategic goals.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to initiate, lead or contribute to large-scale/complex strategic projects for team, department, and company.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on solution design as well as lead code/design reviews.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline: Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Informatics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics, etc.
• 5+ years of industry or relevant academia experience
• Background in at least one programming language (eg. R, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala/Spark or Perl)
• Experience in applied statistics and statistical modeling in at least one statistical software package, (eg. R, Python)

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry or relevant academia experience
• MS or PhD in a quantitative discipline: Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Informatics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics, etc. or other quantitative field.
• Experience in infrastructure planning, operations research, or a related field
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and infrastructure management systems.

Suggested Skills

• Statistical Modeling
• Forecasting
• Programming
• Data Analysis
• Infrastructure Planning

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 $170,000 - $277,000. Actual compensation packages are based