Principal Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure

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. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval. LinkedIn’s Reliability Infrastructure team is responsible for defining and driving the reliability strategy, standards, and practices that keep LinkedIn’s most critical systems stable, resilient, and available at massive scale. As a Principal Staff Software Engineer, Reliability Infrastructure, you will serve as a senior technical authority for reliability across LinkedIn Engineering. You will help define how critical services are designed, built, operated, and measured, partnering broadly across infrastructure and product engineering teams to improve resiliency, reduce incidents, and raise the reliability bar across the company. A key focus of this role is driving the adoption and evolution of LinkedIn’s service criticality framework, including reliability expectations for the most business-critical systems. You will help classify services based on criticality and blast radius, define appropriate reliability standards, and