Sr. Software Engineer

About the job: 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 opportunities, build skills, and gain insights daily. We invest in employee growth and aim to create a culture of trust, care, inclusion, and fun—where everyone can succeed.

Hiring team details: Enterprise Platform Foundations

Our Vision: Deliver world-class ease of doing business experience for LinkedIn’s paid customers.

Our Mission: Build a unified, efficient, secure product platform to accelerate and maximize the value of LinkedIn’s paid products and services.

EP Foundations (Enterprise Platform Foundations) is the core platform powering every paid product at LinkedIn. As part of the broader Enterprise Platform (EP) organization, the team provides foundational capabilities used across LinkedIn's enterprise businesses and products.

The Enterprise Platform organization delivers common services across three key areas:

• User & License Management through Admin Center and Account Center (EP Foundations)
• Digital Goods Management
• Enterprise Identity & Access Management

EP Foundations owns the lifecycle of enterprise entities, including accounts, licenses, profiles, roles, seats, groups, and application instances. EP Foundations serves as a dependency for all major LinkedIn Lines of Business, including Talent Solutions, Sales Solutions, Learning, Premium, and emerging products.

The team is both a platform and product engineering organization, responsible for the backend systems that power Admin Center while managing some of LinkedIn's most critical enterprise data stores and services. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing User identifiers such as Seat ID, User ID, Email, and Member ID.
• Managing core enterprise entities including Accounts, Application Instances, Profiles, Licenses, User, Groups, and Roles.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and evolving business needs. The work location for 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.

Responsibilities:

• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Mentor junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day technical guidance while contributing to a culture of engineering excellence and craftsmanship.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable platforms, services, and applications that address business needs and improve developer productivity.
• Partner with engineers across teams to build reusable solutions, establish best practices, and contribute to a consistent technical ecosystem.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions within the team's domain.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications: BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience. 7+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm-related solutions. 7+ years programming experience in Java and/or any object-oriented language.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale and strong object-oriented skills. Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and software design principles. Experience with object-oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Java, C++ etc.).

Suggested Skills: Distributed Systems, Software Design, Backend Development.