Principal Staff Software Engineer, Regulatory Compliance

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

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.

This role may be located in Mountain View, CA or Bellevue, WA.

As a Principal Staff Software Engineer  at LinkedIn, you will architect and lead the implementation of regulatory and compliance solutions across LinkedIn’s marketplaces – by keeping up with the latest global regulatory landscape spanning privacy, security, and AI regulations. 

As a key leader in the organization, you will research, build software, anticipate and influence architectures in other parts of the company, influence how products are built at LinkedIn, while continuing to deliver member value. You will design technical solutions for LinkedIn’s ecosystem across all product surfaces to create a cohesive and compliant experience for our members. You will act as the bridge between business and technology to help translate compliance objectives into technical specifications, design the architecture and ensure the solution aligns with our regulatory obligations. This involves collaborating with multiple stakeholders across the company and being comfortable operating in a matrix environment. Maintain member trust and regulator confidence through provable, continuous compliance solutions. You will enable LinkedIn to maintain member trust and regulator confidence through provable, continuous compliance solutions while reducing risk and enabling developer velocity.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a senior technical leader driving the long-term regulatory and compliance engineering strategy across LinkedIn’s marketplaces. Ensure that compliance needs are met through well designed and effectively implemented technology solutions.
• Architect solutions that complement both existing and new systems at LinkedIn to enable compliance by design. 
• Partner closely and across many different types of engineering teams to raise the bar for regulatory awareness and compliance by design and ensure e2e compliance.
• Analyze complex systems problems and drive  meaningful engineering and product decisions by balancing the risk, compliance and member value.
• Define and own the roadmap of bringing regulatory best practices to critical user journeys for LinkedIn’s products to help capture and improve the experience of LinkedIn’s members/customers
• Support external regulatory engagements to translate complex technical challenges into understandable terms for technical and non-technical audiences
• Spearhead a multi-year initiative to transition and transform LinkedIn’s infrastructure to ensure continuous compliance even as regulations change and evolve. 
• Lead technical discussions on the impact of regulations on Engineering at LinkedIn, what the function should evolve into over the next 3–5 years
• Deliver key insights, executive level reporting across the cross-functional engineering teams to enable the right business decisions around improving regulatory best practices
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction across orgs, and contributing deeply to culture, hiring, and technical excellence
• Lead regulatory incident response and post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement preventive measures. Develop and maintain processes and procedures to ensure timely resolution of issues and minimize impact on members and customers

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BS (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
• 7+ years of industry experience.
• 5+ years in an architect or technical leadership position
• 5+ years focused on regulatory & compliance engineering landscape

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS and 12+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 10+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 8+ years of relevant work experience.
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