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.
This role will be based in Mountain View, CA.
At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.
Creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce is a responsibility we all share. To truly transform the global economy, we must evolve the way we hire and enable our talent to serve people of all backgrounds and experiences. LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
The LinkedIn IR platform, a part of the AI organization, is dedicated to developing a high-performance information retrieval platform that drives LinkedIn's search and recommendation systems, catering to a user base of over 1 billion members. Our platform is designed to construct scalable, real-time indexes that support various company-wide use cases such as people, jobs, and feed recommendations. Through the utilization of query understanding (NLP), lexical (inverted index), and semantic matching (embedding bases retrieval), as well as the integration of relevance models (neural networks) for ranking, we deliver accurate and personalized results across all of LinkedIn's products. Next, we are evolving and modernizing our entire IR infrastructure to leverage cutting-edge advancements like Retrieval-as-Ranking, supporting GenAI, and providing a managed cloud for LLM serving.
Responsibilities:
- You will lead through collaboration and influence rather than decree or direction.
- Coach, mentor, develop career and grow talent within the team.
- Identify problems and opportunities & deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale.
- Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
- Resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture.
- Manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, review code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
Basic Qualifications
• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering/technical management and people management.
• 7+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large-scale software engineering
• Experience programming in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages(like Java/CPP/Scala/etc.)
• Hands on experience developing distributed systems, databases, large scale data systems and/or Backend API's
Preferred Qualifications
MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline
4+ years of software engineering management experience
2+ years exp managing managers
Suggested Skills:
- Technical Leadership
- People Management
- Stakeholder Management
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $180,000 to $300,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits
Equal Opportunity Statement
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/:b:/t/LinkedInGCI/EeE8sk7CTIdFmEp9ONzFOTEBM62TPrWLMHs4J1C_QxVTbg?e=5hfhpE. Please reference https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.
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Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
-Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
-Having interviews in an accessible location
-Being accompanied by a service dog
-Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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