Software Engineering Manager

LinkedIn 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.

We are looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial engineering leader to join the Bangalore engineering team. In this role, you will be part of LinkedIn's India initiatives team responsible for leading a team of engineers to develop new products and services and scale existing LinkedIn's products for the fast-growing Indian market. You will also partner with other teams across the company to ensure a consistently awesome experience across platforms and products.

This role will be based in Bangalore, 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.

Responsibilities:
- Manage the performance and career development of a team of engineers, and own significant parts of LinkedIn products that require design, architecture, and coding
- Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap
- Be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship
- Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack
- Manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, review code, and deliver with speediness and quality
- Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable infrastructure-centric applications that operate 24x7
- Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration

Basic Qualifications:
- 1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training
- BS in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years of relevant engineering work experience and 2+ years of hands-on technical management experience
- 5+ years of software design, coding in one of the following languages: Golang, Python or Java
- 2+ years of container/cloud infrastructure experience (K8S/AWS/Azure/GCP)

Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of management experience in building small to medium-sized teams, demonstrating growth and a track record of successful deliveries
- 3+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale productions systems
- 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes (K8S)
- Shipped several large-scale projects with dependencies across multiple teams
- Built and delivered on successful cross-functional partnerships across multiple teams
- Been actively involved in creation and execution of technical strategy and roadmap
- Actively coached, mentored and grew team members in their careers
- Track record in partnering with recruiting to hire and build incredible engineering teams

You will benefit from our Culture:
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