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Streaming SRE team is a combination development and operational role ensuring the reliability for centralized Pubsub systems at LinkedIn. There will be an expectation of participating in an oncall 1x per month.

Come join the Software Engineering SRE team responsible for maintaining one of the largest Streaming ecosystems on the planet including Kafka. The LinkedIn Streaming SRE team is responsible for maintaining LinkedIn’s Kafka, Samza, Flink and overall pubsub ecosystem which processes over 50 trillion messages per day across more than 150 clusters. The pubsub system is the de facto way of moving data at LinkedIn, powering everything from database replication to our metrics and log collection.As a member of the Streaming SRE team, you would be responsible for helping our pubsub systems, including Kafka and Stream-Processing technologies like Samza and Flink, to scale to meet LinkedIn’s needs. This would also include writing code to automate solutions to new and exciting problems and working closely with our customers across all of LinkedIn Engineering. Additionally, as an embedded SRE, you will work closely with LinkedIn’s pubsub development teams to ensure that the ecosystem of applications responsible for streaming data at LinkedIn continue to be reliable, operable, scalable, and maintainable.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both 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.

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA.

Responsibilities:

● Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of one or more of our Internet-facing services

● Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications

● Assist in the roll-out and ramp up of new product features and technologies to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth

● Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale Linux environment. Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment

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

● Knowledge of most of these: data structures, relational and non-relational databases, networking, Linux internals, filesystems, web architecture, and related topics.

● Participate in a 24x7 rotation for second-tier escalations

Basic Qualifications:

● BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience

● 1+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions

● Experience programming in languages such as Python, Java, Javascript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

● Experience with Java or C++ development

● Preferred languages: Python, Java, C++, Go

● Experience in building systems automation and server backends with Python

● Experience with Linux OS (Azure Linux, Redhat)

● Troubleshoot production systems at scale

Suggested Skills:

● Networking fundamentals

● Linux OS (Azure Linux, Redhat)

●Programming Proficiency

●Collaboration

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is [$99,000 to $163,000]. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

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

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