Principal Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

As a Principal Staff Software Engineer, Reliability Infrastructure, you will serve as a senior technical authority for reliability across LinkedIn Engineering. You will help define how critical services are designed, built, operated, and measured, partnering broadly across infrastructure and product engineering teams to improve resiliency, reduce incidents, and raise the reliability bar across the company.

What You Will Do

Define and drive company-wide reliability strategy, standards, and best practices across LinkedIn Engineering. Lead adoption and evolution of service criticality models that set reliability expectations based on business impact and blast radius. Serve as a technical authority for architecture decisions related to reliability, resiliency, availability, and failure handling.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This is a company-wide technical leadership role for someone with deep distributed systems expertise, strong reliability judgment, and the ability to influence architecture and engineering practices across large organizations.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, distributed systems, SRE, production engineering, or reliability engineering
• 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership, architect, or principal-level engineering role
• Experience designing, building, or operating large-scale distributed systems
• Experience defining or driving reliability standards such as SLOs, SLIs, uptime targets, incident reduction, or operational readiness frameworks
• Understanding of high availability, redundancy, fault tolerance, failure modes, and resiliency patterns
• Experience influencing architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams or organizations
• Software engineering experience in one or more languages such as Java, Go, C++, Python, or similar

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Stock
• Benefits
• Incentive compensation plans