VP of Data Infrastructure

Company: LinkedIn
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: November 23, 2021

Job Description:

Company Description

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.

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Job Description

LinkedIn's Data Infrastructure team is responsible for building and operating a majority of LinkedIn's high-scale, high-performance, stateful systems for storage, streams, and graph. The team is focused on supporting LinkedIn's accelerating growth by building new capabilities across the portfolio, scaling efficiently with emphasis on automation, and playing a key role in driving LinkedIn's migration to Azure.

A successful candidate will be an integral member of LinkedIn's Engineering leadership team and key contributor to the future success of the business and LinkedIn. This individual will be a strong thought leader in the technology space, with the ability to build and execute at scale, and an inspirational people leader, overseeing a large team of engineers solving big problems.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:
Acts as a role model of LinkedIn's culture and values.
Inspire, lead, and grow a 200+ world-class engineering organization; Hire world class engineering talent and provide technical guidance, career development, and mentorship.
Play a leading role in the planning and execution of ongoing efforts for the organization based on the company's long-term priorities and strategies to rapidly grow and setting the strategy and roadmap for Data Infrastructure at LinkedIn.
Be a strong advocate for users and partners to enable their success.
Sustain a culture of strong craftsmanship in the work the team does while continuing to display strong execution and a bias for action.
Ensure the organization has the skillset, bandwidth, and capability to support LinkedIn's expanding product features for LinkedIn's consumer facing product.
Experience building, operating, and scaling large scale distributed systems.
Experience building systems with significant levels of automation and minimal human intervention at extreme scale.

Basic Qualifications:
B.A./B.S. degree or higher, or equivalent experience.
10+ years of software engineering management.
4+ years experience in data infrastructure, building and operating large scale system databases, storage, streaming, indexing technologies, etc..

Preferred Qualifications

Experience sizeable teams, with experience managing through other senior leaders.
Passion for working with data at scale.
Hands on experience of developing large scale distributed systems/databases (or other high scale data systems).
Held VP-level roles at consumer technology companies/cloud hosted infrastructure companies.
Experience attracting, retaining, and developing top engineering and operations talent throughout the industry.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Dream big. Make big, bold moves to define and build the next generation of data infrastructure and inspire others to do so.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here:
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LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to accommodations@linkedin.com. This email box is designed to assist disabled job seekers who seek a reasonable accommodation to the application process. Emails sent for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

In your email, please include the following: (1) confirm you have a disability; (2) identify the disability-related limitation that needs to be accommodated, and (3) if known, describe the specific accommodation requested for the disability-related limitation. A response to your request may take up to three business days.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement

As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates

This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://lnkd.in/GlobalDataPrivacyNotice

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