Sr. Manager, Software Engineering | LinkedIn Business Platform

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.

The LinkedIn Business Platform (LBP) organization at LinkedIn is looking for a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering that will work and learn among the best, utilizing your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, great API and systems-design sensibilities, and passion for writing code that performs at an extreme scale. You will lead Field Commercial Models enabling LinkedIn to process north of $15 billion in annual revenue. You will be responsible for innovating how we sell the next generation of agentic enterprise products, with insights on utilization and renewals. You will also scale the Quoting engine for LinkedIn’s Online Subscription and Field businesses.

Responsibilities:

• You will manage the performance and career development of a small team of engineers, and own significant parts of LinkedIn products that require design, architecture, and coding.
• You will participate with product and senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap.
• You will evaluate and prioritize factors to make a weighted decision, arriving at a solution that tackles ambiguity in complex problems and present subjective opinions.
• You will lead cross-functional collaboration to create clarity of business goals and rally focus on members' needs leading to better products
• You will manage vendor relationships by evaluating right partnership and requirements, drive them towards well-reasoned solutions and ensure best practices for smooth integrations.
• You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers and managers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship, while inspiring the team to develop a solution-oriented mindset.
• You will work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
• You will manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, review code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• You will develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
• You will produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
• 5+ years of hands-on technical management experience 
• 7+ years industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 5+ years experience in large-scale system design and software development
• Experience programming in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (like Java/Python/C/C++/Scala/etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering/technical management and people management experience
• 8+ years industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 7+ years programming experience in languages such as Java, C/C++, C#, Python, Go, etc.
• Hands-on experience leading 30+ member teams in a product development organization, including managers.
• Strong experience influencing stakeholders, and delivering impact in a matrix environment, through measurable metrics.
• Experience in the design and development of performant, highly available, scalable web applications
• Understanding of common performance patterns and anti-patterns in distributed systems
• Successful track record of managing small teams of engineers to deliver multiple projects on time and with quality
• Active involvement in the creation and execution of technical strategies and roadmaps
• Hire and retain world-class engineers by providing career growth, mentoring, and high impact projects, while taking intelligent risks to improve the way work i