Principal Staff Software Engineer - LinkedIn Talent Solutions

LinkedIn • Full-time • Bengaluru, IN • 4d ago

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 Description:

LinkedIn Talent Solutions provides a comprehensive suite of products and services designed to assist organizations in sourcing, hiring, and managing talent effectively. As Principal for this team, you will be responsible for key strategic areas impacting Jobs, Recruiter and Hiring Assistant.

This role will be based in Bengaluru, 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.

Key Responsibilities:

You will build and ship software, drive architectural decisions and implementation across distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
You will actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
You will lead cross team/cross-functional discussions and drive alignment on product/technology strategy.
You will define the bar for quality and efficiency of software systems while balancing business impact, operational impact and cost benefits of design and architectural choices.
You will act as one of the primary domain experts to influence technology choices.
You will lead by example to build a culture of craftsmanship and innovation.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
18+ years of experience in software design/development
18+ years experience in/with programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, or C++

Preferred Qualifications

Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
Experience with object-oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Java, C++).
Proven coding skills in a high level language with interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
Experience with large scale automation across key enterprise personas
Proven track record of leading and delivering complex software projects.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Strong communication and collaboration skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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
Distributed Systems
Software Design
Technical Communication
Cross-organizational collaboration

Additional Information

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