Manager, Software Engineering - Enterprise Innovation

Manager, Software Engineering - Enterprise Innovation

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. This role will be hybrid in our Mountain View, CA or New York City, NY office location.

We are seeking a highly skilled Engineering Manager to join our Enterprise Innovation (EI) team in designing for the "Future of Work." You will shape the future of employee productivity through large scale AI, automation, and SaaS (vendor and homegrown) systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement innovative solutions that enhance employee efficiency and the overall employee experience.

We are a data driven organization and you will lead strategic investments to make step function improvements in the lives of LinkedIn employees. This spans multiple areas including but not limited to : Providing tools and infrastructure that creates delightful employee experience; Provide and support application frameworks that empower LinkedIn employee to maximize productivity; Provide actionable insights that leverages data and metrics; Provide tools and data that help LinkedIn teams listen to their customers; and most importantly deliver reliable and scalable infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to engage the industry-wide employee productivity community and contribute to open-source software as well. This Software Engineering Manager role is part of the Enterprise Platforms, Infrastructure, and Collaboration (EPIC) org within EI. You will get an opportunity to influence, transform, and create an amazing experience for employees at LinkedIn by leading the team. The mission is to create an ecosystem that enables employees to deliver their products and services at LinkedIn at the highest quality they can.

Responsibilities

• You will manage the performance and career development of a small team of engineers (including software engineers, system engineers, enterprise engineers, and / or sysadmins), and own significant parts of internal LinkedIn products that require design, architecture, and coding.
• You will partner with senior management in owning responsibility for large scale vendor SaaS and on-prem solutions, including contract negotiations, solution design, and support optimization.
• You will provide thought leadership, develop and evangelize solutions to challenges faced by every individual and team at LinkedIn to improve employee happiness, productivity, and efficiency.
• You will scale the infrastructure and tools required to keep our ~30K employees and contingent workers in step as they collaborate in chat, docs, designs, reports, etc.
• You will participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap for LinkedIn's enterprise platforms. You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craft.
• You will work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack. You will manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, review code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• You will develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
• You will produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

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