Staff Software Engineer - Compute Infrastructure

LinkedIn is the worlds 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. Were also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture thats 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 operates one of the largest privately managed compute infrastructures in the world outside the public cloud providers. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Compute Infrastructure team, you will help build and evolve the platform that powers LinkedIn at every layer — the real-time services behind products serving over a billion members, large-scale data and analytics pipelines processing petabytes daily, and the AI/ML infrastructure driving recommendations, search relevance, and generative AI at scale. The Compute Infrastructure stack is LinkedIn's internal private cloud, purpose-built to meet the company's unique scaling challenges. The platform is deeply Kubernetes-centric and continuously evolving to stay at the forefront of industry trends. You will work on problems that span large-scale workload orchestration, multi-cluster operations, platform reliability and efficiency, GPU compute optimization for AI/ML, and fleet health at scale — all at a scale that few organizations in the world encounter. In this role, you will design and implement solutions that enable LinkedIn to scale its compute infra