LinkedIn
LinkedIn is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer leading Engineering Excellence. The role is hybrid, with work from home and an LinkedIn office on select days as determined by the team’s needs.
Overview
This role blends deep technical leadership with cultural impact, ensuring our systems are reliable today and positioned for long-term growth and resilience. The successful candidate will have a track record of technical program and project management, strong leadership, and excellent organizational and communication skills to lead teams and programs to deliver outcomes. They should possess strong B2B business strategy sense, product intuition, and technical understanding to collaborate with product development teams. Responsibilities
Define, implement, and evolve metrics to measure system health, reliability, and operational excellence across engineering teams. Lead initiatives to improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response for proactive management of system reliability. Document technical requirements, acting as a liaison between platform owners and internal customer teams. Establish and champion best practices that embed engineering excellence into day-to-day development and operational workflows. Collaborate with infrastructure teams on migration and platform changes, ensuring product use cases and business requirements are addressed. Drive cross-functional efforts to reduce technical debt, improve scalability, and strengthen long-term system resilience. Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, fostering a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement. Influence senior stakeholders and align teams around a strategic vision for system health and engineering excellence. Drive alignments and prioritization across all technology initiatives, manage roadmap for a single consistent view and lead communications. Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success. Convey complex technical concepts and progress updates to executive-level stakeholders, fostering understanding and alignment across units. Drive prioritization discussions, emphasizing technical depth and credibility to gain support for strategic initiatives. Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Operational Research, Statistics, Economics or related fields) 8+ years of experience in Ads Stack or infra 5+ years of experience in leading Engineering projects Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing and building scalable, reliable infrastructure for marketing technology platforms. Deep expertise in the Ads ecosystem with the ability to design and launch impactful products that drive results. Ability to lead by example and collaborate across teams; strong leadership and people skills. Understanding of large-scale engineering systems and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, distributed stores, streaming, recommender systems, experimental design). Ability to navigate ambiguous problems, define clear problems, take initiative, and drive consensus across partners. Strong leadership to drive cross-functional efforts and build relationships with stakeholders. Salary and Benefits
Salary range: $198,000 to $326,000. Actual compensation based on factors including skill set, experience, certifications, and location. The total package may include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits, and other incentive plans. For more information, visit the LinkedIn benefits page. Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and consider 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 legally protected class. LinkedIn is committed to an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Appeals for accommodations can be sent to accommodations@linkedin.com. Additional Information
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) is the largest and fastest-growing B2B Advertising Platform at scale, enabling measurement, targeting, and privacy-respecting advertising technology. This role supports our LMS engineering team and cross-functional partners to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure while upholding privacy by design principles.
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This role blends deep technical leadership with cultural impact, ensuring our systems are reliable today and positioned for long-term growth and resilience. The successful candidate will have a track record of technical program and project management, strong leadership, and excellent organizational and communication skills to lead teams and programs to deliver outcomes. They should possess strong B2B business strategy sense, product intuition, and technical understanding to collaborate with product development teams. Responsibilities
Define, implement, and evolve metrics to measure system health, reliability, and operational excellence across engineering teams. Lead initiatives to improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response for proactive management of system reliability. Document technical requirements, acting as a liaison between platform owners and internal customer teams. Establish and champion best practices that embed engineering excellence into day-to-day development and operational workflows. Collaborate with infrastructure teams on migration and platform changes, ensuring product use cases and business requirements are addressed. Drive cross-functional efforts to reduce technical debt, improve scalability, and strengthen long-term system resilience. Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, fostering a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement. Influence senior stakeholders and align teams around a strategic vision for system health and engineering excellence. Drive alignments and prioritization across all technology initiatives, manage roadmap for a single consistent view and lead communications. Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success. Convey complex technical concepts and progress updates to executive-level stakeholders, fostering understanding and alignment across units. Drive prioritization discussions, emphasizing technical depth and credibility to gain support for strategic initiatives. Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Operational Research, Statistics, Economics or related fields) 8+ years of experience in Ads Stack or infra 5+ years of experience in leading Engineering projects Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing and building scalable, reliable infrastructure for marketing technology platforms. Deep expertise in the Ads ecosystem with the ability to design and launch impactful products that drive results. Ability to lead by example and collaborate across teams; strong leadership and people skills. Understanding of large-scale engineering systems and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, distributed stores, streaming, recommender systems, experimental design). Ability to navigate ambiguous problems, define clear problems, take initiative, and drive consensus across partners. Strong leadership to drive cross-functional efforts and build relationships with stakeholders. Salary and Benefits
Salary range: $198,000 to $326,000. Actual compensation based on factors including skill set, experience, certifications, and location. The total package may include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits, and other incentive plans. For more information, visit the LinkedIn benefits page. Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and consider 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 legally protected class. LinkedIn is committed to an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Appeals for accommodations can be sent to accommodations@linkedin.com. Additional Information
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) is the largest and fastest-growing B2B Advertising Platform at scale, enabling measurement, targeting, and privacy-respecting advertising technology. This role supports our LMS engineering team and cross-functional partners to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure while upholding privacy by design principles.
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