Senior Staff Software Engineer - Ads

Company: LinkedIn
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: February 15, 2020

Job Description:

professionals and enterprise companies achieve more. 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. Searching for your dream job? At LinkedIn, we strive to help our employees find passion and purpose. Join us in changing the way the world works. We are seeking extraordinary talent to help build sophisticated technology capable of serving billions of page views to over 550+ million LinkedIn members. As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within an organization. We are looking for someone who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, aligns points of view across teams and makes smart trade offs to help achieve the goals of individual teams as well as LinkedIn s broader goals. This leader will fost LinkedIn s culture and values around transformation, collaboration and results. This position is full-time and based in our offices indicated on the job posting. LinkedIn Ads Team is looking for a Sr. Staff Engineer to grow our sponsored content ads business in the feed. As the tech lead, you will work closely with cross functional teams to explore and define the roadmap. You will envision the practical challenges in the ads ecosystem and feed ecosystem and propose solid solutions to pave the way for our long term roadmap. You will also be on the ground leading and driving cross team efforts to ensure project delivery and great quality. Responsibilities *Deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale *Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization *Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies *Design products/services/tools and code that can be used by others while upholding operational impact of all decisions *Identify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems *Work closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmap *Resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture *Review others work and share knowledge Basic Qualifications *BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience *5+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 2 of those years in an architect or leadership position *2+ years of ads domain experience, especially ads serving, delivery, or ads product related background Preferred Qualifications *10+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm relat solutions *10+ years programming experience in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C/C++ *Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures *Experience leading a large organization *Experience in ads domain Equal Opportunity Statement LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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