Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed. It inspires us to invest in our talent and support career growth. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters.

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.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid and remote work options, meaning you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or this role can be performed remotely in most locations in the country of employment.

As the Director of Site Reliability Engineering for our Flagship, Premium, Trust, and Site SRE organization, you will be responsible for working closely with the product software development and product management organizations to drive new and exciting engaging experiences that will connect every member of the global workforce to new opportunities. Some examples of this is our strategy to build more active communities, groups, events, and ultimately helping to build an engaging product marketplace. There are four critical pieces of the role that come together:

• Flagship: This is the heart and sole of LinkedIn that drives engagement across the site. This is our core Feed, Growth, Messaging, Identity, Search, and Content experience ecosystems that our core to LinkedIn members. When members access LinkedIn this is the experience they see and is mission critical. Today LinkedIn serves ~2.25B weekly feed updates, 6B homepage weekly views, 20M creators a day, 229M messages sent a week between members, and 16M reactions a day. In addition, LinkedIn has over 700M+ members. 

• Premium: This is the pay version of LinkedIn that offers members additional access to LinkedIn’s website to help them connect / leverage LinkedIn to do more. This piece of our ecosystem drives 1.2+ billion in revenue. 

• Trust: Trust is at the heart of how LinkedIn makes every decision because LinkedIn’s members trust are what powers LinkedIn. Working closely with the head of Trust development and Safety you will be engaged in ensuring our members our safe from the initial login through their experience of using LinkedIn. Our goal is to ensure LinkedIn remains a safety and trusted platform for every member of the global workforce.  

• Site: This is a newly formed organization that contains our SiteOps (eyes on the site team) and our Prod SRE organization. This leader will need to work with the head of SRE + the manager for this organization to build a future strategy on expanding the charter of this organization to provide more insights/analytics while leveraging aspects of machine learning to help navigate the charter of the SRE + Eng organizations around building reliability into the software development lifecycle. 

This job is as mission-critical as it gets. You will lead an amazing Site Reliability Engineering team. You will drive the technology and help to prioritize and execute the product roadmap with reliability in mind while you collaborate with your Software Development counterparts. 

You will oversee some of the most talented engineers on the planet, and help them to pursue their passion and transform their careers. Your growth will come from building and supporting strong leaders to whom you can effectively delegate, mentor for peak performance, define clear roles and accountability, communicate clear priorities and maximize cross-organizational alignment. Your long-term success will come not from a “command and control” but from “inspire and empower” style.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical leadership for product strategies incorporating reliability at the heart of the products and technologies we ship. 

• Partner/Align with your Engineering counterparts, Security, SRE counterparts and TPM’s to prioritize operational improvements to drive site health and enable any engineer to run and operate their service at ease.

• Drive and own improvements in end-to-end infrastructure and systems.

• Be the domain expert who is tuned in to industry trends and applies best practices.

• Inspire, lead and grow a world-class engineering organization. Be a role model and coach for engineers and leaders. Help them realize their potential by setting clear expectations, openly evaluating performance, upholding accountability, and providing challenges (within and outside their team) to stretch their skills.

• Foster a culture of collaboration and excellence. Actively promote diversity and inclusion.

• 7+ years of engineering management.

• 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

Basic Qualifications

• Experience/Knowledge of Java/any other object oriented programming language.

• Experience with interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in owning consumer or customer facing mission critical systems and working under SLA's on uptime, performance. Experience in leading consumer facing content products will be a plus.

• Familiarity with content engagement, discovery or related domain. 

• Experience managing both engineering (SFDC), SRE, and driving a mission critical operations for a particular domain.

• Experience managing 50+ engineers.

• Experience leading a multi-location global team.

• Experience at second level management (leading other managers).

• Python experience, specifically for systems automation. 

Suggested Skills

• Strategic Leadership
• Managing managers and individual contributors
• Site Reliability Engineering

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $195,000 to $320,000. 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.*

Equal Opportunity Statement

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers 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 other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://lnkd.in/equalemploymentopportunity2017. Please reference the following information for more information: https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/LinkedIn_EEO_Statement_2020.pdf.  Please reference the following information for more information:  https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.

LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at [email protected] and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.

Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance ​

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement ​

As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates ​

Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.

Equal Opportunity Statement

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers 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 other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://lnkd.in/equalemploymentopportunity2017. Please reference the following information for more information: https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/LinkedIn_EEO_Statement_2020.pdf.  Please reference the following information for more information:  https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.

LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at [email protected] and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.

Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance ​

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement ​

As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates ​

Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.