Principal Staff Software Engineer, Advertiser Growth

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

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.

LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) allows organizations to connect with the world’s largest community of business professionals by serving ad content to our members through a variety of products and platforms. The Audience, Identity and Measurement (AIM) team is at the forefront of industry innovations related to privacy, identity, and ads performance measurement. The team is responsible for building the ads data platforms leveraged within LinkedIn Marketing Solutions and across LinkedIn along with the product experiences that deliver powerful and actionable insights to our advertising customers on the performance of their ads campaigns. This team builds the end-to-end systems related to privacy-centric ads data collection, validation, modeling and analysis, ads attribution (i.e, cause & effect), and impact analysis and ROI performance reporting. 

Responsibilities:

• You will build and ship software at scale to deliver impact
• You will drive architectural decisions and implementation across the engineering organization.
• You will actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
• You will lead cross team/cross functional discussions and drive alignment on product/technology strategy.
• You will establish a culture that values diverse viewpoints while navigating complex decisions.
• You will define the bar for quality and efficiency of software systems while balancing business impact, operational impact and cost benefits of design and architectural choices.
• You will act as the primary domain expert to influence technology choices.
• You will lead by example to build a culture of craftsmanship and innovation.

Basic Qualifications: 

• BS (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
• 7+ years of industry experience.
• 5+ years in an architect or technical leadership position

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS and 12+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 10+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in designing and implementing technologies for highly distributed platforms.
• Familiarity with multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, etc.), languages (C++, Python, etc.).
• Experience in the Advertising/Marketing Industry particularly with Ads Measurement
• Experience in Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience designing and building scalable agentic systems.

Suggested Skills: 

• Software Engineering
• Technical leadership
• Online advertising
• Technology Strategy
• Cross-functional work

You will Benefit from our Culture

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels. 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $209,000 - $343,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

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