Company Description
LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and everyday 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 are much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology.
Creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce is a responsibility we all share. To truly transform the global economy, we must evolve the way we hire and enable our talent to serve people of all backgrounds and experiences. LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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. This is a hybrid position based out of our Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters.
The Dev Platforms and Experiences (DPX) organization has the mission of making everyone in LinkedIn R&D more productive and successful. The charter includes all our core developer infrastructure to Build, Test and Deploy our software, the applications frameworks that we leverage to build our user facing products and the Platform capabilities that power our product innovation.
We are looking for a Sr. Director to help build out our Testing Infrastructure and Automation teams. LI is going through a massive transformation across our core Infrastructure, Application frameworks and finally the way we structure our code (moving from highly fragmented multiple repositories to a few large repos), which will fundamentally change our developer experience. Any change requires validation and our validation infrastructure needs to be rebuilt to help us navigate these changes with predictability and reliability without slowing down the engineering organization. In addition to validation, to accelerate these transformations, automation will have to play a key role and this leader will be responsible for defining our automation strategy and how we can leverage AI to make our engineers more productive.
Responsibilities:
-You will build and ship software, drive architectural decisions and implementation across teams.
-You will drive the adoption of cutting-edge solutions and methods to enable innovative developer focused tools and applications.
-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 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.
Basic Qualifications
-Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field - Computer Science, Operational Research, Statistics, Economics or related fields
-15+ years of experience in management positions
Preferred Qualifications
-Experience managing teams of 80+ individuals and first/second-line managers. Ability to lead by example and inspire the team to perform at a high level and collaborate very well across different teams.
-Good understanding of large-scale engineering systems.
-Engineering development experience, building products and backend systems, infrastructure services.
-Background in leverage LLM to build products (preferably developer focused applications).
"Suggested Skills"
-People Management
-Technical Leadership
- AI domain expertise
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $227,000 to $373,000. 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
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