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Join us to transform the way the world works.
This role will be based in Bangaluru, India.
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 Content Technology Engineering - Studio Platform team builds high-quality applications, automation services, and integration to power the productivity of enterprise Creators at LinkedIn. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design of content creation systems and integrating with industry leading technologies that empower LinkedIn to create world-class content at scale. You will directly impact our Learning, Editorial, and internal Media Productions products.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and integrate cutting-edge software technologies. Act as primary management interface and escalation for all product system related issues.
- You will develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7 enabling Studio Content Creators to rapidly create content at the same time remaining constantly available and performant to users.
- You will produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
- Provide technical leadership in directing the efforts of the team in the development and production release of all relevant engineering deliverables in compliance with the product development process and customer expectations.
- Ensure that: engineering targets (quality, delivery timing, performance, engineering budget, etc.) for engineering deliverables are met; product development is aligned with architecture approaches; design reviews are completed and productive; the quality of all team deliverables meet standards and timing; any required cross-functional design reviews or data sharing is completed.
- You will provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide critical programs. Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity.
- You will scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
- Provide the technical platform for all of LinkedIn Media Content Engineering to build services in order to scale our media portfolio worldwide.
- Provide mentorship both internally and invest in organizational activities such as promotion committees and hiring committees.
- Participate in a 12x7 oncall rotation with other members of the India-based team.
Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
- 12 + years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
- 4+ years programming experience in backend languages such as Python, Java, Javascript, etc and frontend languages such as React
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in media workflows including capture technology, encoding services such as FFMPEG, and Media Asset Management
- Experience with integrating and automating for post-production systems including Adobe Creative Cloud
- Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale.
- Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Experience building web applications and services with IDEs, ant, junit, etc.
- Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management
Suggested Skills:
Technical Leadership
Software Design & Architecture
Code Review
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