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Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - Identity and Compliance Management

LinkedIn
Mountain View, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Oct 2025
💰 $297,000/yr($181,000/yr$297,000/yr)

About the role

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

Hiring Team Description:

At LinkedIn, our strong insider security controls are critical to our ability to ensure a secure infrastructure
that protects our members’ data and ensures. The Identity Development team is responsible for
implementing and operating the services that govern the identity and access of LinkedIn internal users at
scale. This team is also responsible for providing the capabilities to ensure continuous monitoring of
security controls to ensure that they are effective and meet compliance requirements.

As a Sr. Manager of the Identity Development Team at LinkedIn, you will play a crucial role in our ongoing
efforts to set the vision for our internal user identity and compliance strategy. We are looking for
experienced professionals who have a proven track record of leading engineering teams that can design
and develop identity and compliance infrastructure by collaborating with diverse stakeholder teams
(both engineering and non-engineering) across multiple organizations.

If you are passionate about developing and delivering the underlying technology that powers one of the
world's most-used internet applications and have the skills and experience to help us take our identity
and compliance monitoring services to the next level, we want to hear from you. Apply now to join our
team and help shape the future of LinkedIn.

This role will be based in 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.  

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the engineering team with a passion for mentoring and growing top engineering
talent.
• Participate in key technical and design discussions with technical leads in the team as a hands-on
manager.
• Define and drive identity and compliance monitoring roadmaps by collaborating with technical leads
from multiple development teams, management, and business partners.
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation and learning,
while holding a high bar for software engineering practices.
• Work with senior management to develop a long-term technology strategy.
• Be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on
craftsmanship.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
• 7+ years industry experience in software design, development and delivery
• 5+ years of security experience
• 5+ years programming experience in multiple programming languages such as Rust, Python, Java,
Golang, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, or Ruby
• Experienced in large-scale compute infrastructure and large scale distributed systems
• 5+ years of hands-on technical management experience
• Experience developing full stack applications using microservices architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 10+ years of hands-on technical management experience
• 8+ years of industry experience
• 2+ years of experience working with machine learning/artificial intelligence
• Experience in the design and development of performant, highly available, scalable web applications
• Track record of successfully managing multiple teams of engineers to deliver multiple projects on time
and with quality
• Hire and retain world-class engineers by providing career growth, mentoring, and high impact projects,
while taking intelligent risks to improve the way work is done
• Experience with building, deploying, and operating identity management or compliance monitoring
services
• Experience in building and deploying user authentication and authorization infrastructure (e.g OAuth)

Suggested Skills:

• Technic

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