Company Description
LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunities for every member of the global workforce. It was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world’s workforce in ways no other company can. We’re much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology.
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Job Description
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.
The Director of Capacity, Efficiency, and Forecasting Engineering is a critical leadership position within LinkedIn’s engineering organization. This role is responsible for comprehensively understanding the end-to-end capacity needs of our ecosystem, ensuring efficiency through the application of industry best practices. The director will collaborate closely with engineering teams to develop both long-term and annual forecasts, providing clear predictability for finance and supply chain planning. Additionally, this role will establish transparent cost accounting for each application up to each business unit, enabling informed and strategic business decisions.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate across the rest of engineering leadership and infrastructure leadership to drive high availability of the wider site capacity and forecasting needs and drive a culture of efficiency for LinkedIn’s overall ecosystem.
Be a role model and professional coach for engineers and managers. Help them realize their potential by setting clear expectations, openly evaluating performance, upholding accountability, and providing challenges (within and outside their team) to stretch their skills.
Participate with senior management in co-developing a long-term product reliability and technology road map.
Drive and own improvements in end-to-end infrastructure and systems
Be the domain expert who follows industry trends and applies best practices
Contribute to the hiring and development of talented leaders and engineers ranging from junior to senior levels of experience.
Build effective partnerships with the development, infrastructure, and product teams.
Lead cross-organizational projects to ensure teams deliver on time and at a high-quality bar, by proactively aligning resources and processes, mitigating risks, and making tradeoffs by taking intelligent risks.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related domain.
5+ years managing teams of 40+ engineers.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience attracting, retaining, and developing engineering and operations talent throughout the industry.
Experience in building infrastructure products with a deep understanding of driving capacity and efficiency in these spaces.
Experience with the full lifecycle of building, deploying, and maintaining a large scale ecosystem.
Experience in building a strategic roadmap and leading through change.
Experience managing through leaders / leads to drive outcomes for the business.
5+ years in a large-scale web application infrastructure leadership position.
4+ years experience in one of the following areas - performance engineering, capacity engineering, developer productivity engineering, and web engineering.
Suggested Skills:
- People Leadership
- Infrastructure engineering
- Capacity engineering
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 $218,000 to $357,000. 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.
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
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