Sr. Software Engineer

Sr. Software Engineer

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 details:

Enterprise Platform Foundations

Our Vision: Deliver world-class ease of doing business experience for LinkedIn’s paid customers.

Our Mission: Build a unified, efficient, secure product platform to accelerate & maximize the value of LinkedIn’s paid products and services.
EP Foundations (Enterprise Platform Foundations) is the core platform powering every paid product at LinkedIn. As part of the broader Enterprise Platform (EP) organization, the team provides foundational capabilities used across LinkedIn's enterprise businesses and products.

The Enterprise Platform organization delivers common services across three key areas:

1. User & License Management through Admin Center and Account Center (EP Foundations)

2. Digital Goods Management

3. Enterprise Identity & Access Management

EP Foundations owns the lifecycle of enterprise entities, including accounts, licenses, profiles, roles, seats, groups, and application instances. EP Foundations serves as a dependency for all major LinkedIn Lines of Business, including Talent Solutions, Sales Solutions, Learning, Premium, and emerging products. The team is both a platform and product engineering organization, responsible for the backend systems that power Admin Center while managing some of LinkedIn's most critical enterprise data stores and services. Key responsibilities include managing:

• User identifiers such as Seat ID, User ID, Email, and Member ID.

• Core enterprise entities including Accounts, Application Instances, Profiles, Licenses, User, Groups and Roles.

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

• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.

• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

• Mentor junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day technical guidance while contributing to a culture of engineering excellence and craftsmanship.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable platforms, services, and applications that address business needs and improve developer productivity.

• Partner with engineers across teams to build reusable solutions, establish best practices, and contribute to a consistent technical ecosystem.

• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions within the team's domain.

 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience.

• 7+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.

• 7+ years experience programming experience in Java and/or any Object oriented language

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale & strong object oriented skills.

• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.

• Experience with object oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Java, C++ etc.).

Suggested Skills

• Distributed Systems

• Software Design

• Backend Development

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

Additional Information

India Disability Policy 

LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. For more information on our equal opportunity policy, please visit https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/Policy_India_EqualOppPWD_9-12-2023.pdf

Global Data Privacy Notice and Compliance Posters for Job Candidates 

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Experience Level

Senior Level