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Site Reliability Engineering Manager (Storage)
About the job
LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to directly impact the world’s workforce in ways no other company can. We’re much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology. Are you searching for your dream job? At LinkedIn, we strive to help our employees find passion and purpose. Join us in changing the way the world works.
LinkedIn is looking to hire a Manager within the production Storage Engineering group. The Storage Engineering group defines the strategy for LinkedIn storage infrastructure and is responsible for architecture, design, tooling, and automation related to that.
The candidate will have wide latitude in making contributions in several areas. In this highly visible role, you will work with the various members of the engineering teams guiding technologies, product feature definitions, implementation and tradeoffs, and architecture definition. The candidate should have a strong technical background and experience leading medium-sized teams.
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.
Responsibilities:
Manage the performance and career development of a small team of engineers, and own significant parts of this infrastructure, which will require design, architecture, and coding.
Scale company’s infrastructure to handle massive data growth across the ecosystem.
Develop a long-term technology road map – The candidate will be responsible for designing and developing storage system design and consumption strategies.
Utilize communication skills in interacting with peer groups & drive technical presentations.
Maintain relationships with user groups, stay apprised of future projects, project growth, schedule activities, and be a trusted contact point.
Adapt to the ever-evolving industry; learn and scrutinize new technologies, and envision its possible application towards the LinkedIn mission.
Interface with vendors and support staff to manage projects from inception through completion
Facilitate automation of infrastructure setup and incident response. Willing to participate in on-call rotation
Basic Qualifications:
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years of relevant engineering work experience
– 1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training
– 3+ years of experience in leading large/complex projects design and development of distributed/clustered storage designs
Preferred Qualifications:
– 2+ years of experience in distributed/clustered storage designs
– 2+ years of experience in deploying, analyzing, and debugging storage networks
– 2+ years of experience in application-specific storage sub-system selection, design, and configuration (drives, controllers, interconnects)
– Experience leading cross-functional teams engaged in storage system design and deployment
– Strong written and interpersonal communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff and management
– Effective project leadership abilities to plan, organize, and motivate others to achieve objectives within challenging timelines and situations of uncertainty
– Working knowledge of the Linux stack & Storage technologies e.g., K8, SAN, NAS, GPFS, Gluster, Ceph, Swift etc
– Experience with IP networking: IP addressing, switching, routing, VLANs, firewalls, IPV6
Previous experience working with geographically distributed teams.
Suggested Skills:
Technical Leadership
People and stakeholder Management
Software Design and Architecture
Site Operations Engineer
About the job
LinkedIn seeks engineers for its Site Operations team to proactively and efficiently respond to alerts and resolve application, system and network issues affecting the company platform and ensure maximum availability.
The ideal candidate must have strong communication skills, should be passionate about open source technologies and platforms, leverage and develop automation as a key component to operating large-scale systems and display an ability to spot long-term trends in a production environment. Additionally, they should also be responsible for making sure these services are always available, worldwide, no matter what.
This role will be based in Bangalore, India.
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.
Responsibilities:
– Proactively collaborate with engineering and non-engineering teams to maintain availability and performance SLAs of the LinkedIn application stack and infrastructure using homegrown and commercially available tools
– Adeptly perform application/network/system troubleshooting to quickly resolve issues per documented procedures
– Candidly work with Site Engineering and Development teams, as well as coordinate/communicate/manage notifications and updates of issues affecting site availability/performance to customers and executive management
– Develop tools to effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale environment
– Identify and automate repetitive tasks and processes to improve issue resolution time
– Act as an effective team player that is able to work closely with peers and other operations or engineering teams
– Showcase organizational skills with the ability to multitask in order to handle multiple tasks in an interrupt-driven, real-time environment
– Working in our Site Operations team may require your shift to be rotational, outside of regular working hours, including weekends
Basic Qualifications:
– BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
– Experience with incident management and escalation process
– Experience with Linux systems administration and/or DevOps
– Experience with network concepts, IPv4/6, TCP/IP stack and common Internet protocols (http, https, dns, ftp etc.).
Preferred Qualifications:
– 1+ years of experience in a technical operations or similar role
– Experience in Shell Scripting and Python
– Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills – both written and verbal
– Ability to clearly articulate the problems and solutions to engineering or non-engineering teams at LinkedIn
– Good trouble-shooting and analysis skills to deep dive into a problem and drive it to a resolution
– Experience in documentation and streamlining processes
– Ability to review, recommend and implement new processes to achieve or improve the site level SLAs
Suggested Skills:
– Linux Administration
– Troubleshooting
– Shell Scripting and Python
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.
Communications Manager (Fixed Term Contract)
Job Description
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.
We are looking for a Communications Manager, Engineering and Technology Communications, to lead our engineering communications activity in India and involves developing and executing local communications strategies and media programs to support LinkedIn’s engineering organization and highlight our technological innovation. While this role will report to the Global Engineering Communications lead, they will work closely with the Indian communications lead and the APAC communications team to align local and regional priorities and support larger campaigns. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of technology and trends within the Indian context, be able to work cross-functionally, and have a passion for technology media and storytelling. Success in this role requires problem-solving skills, strong stakeholder management and the ability to work in ambiguity working both independently and as part of a team. Here are the key deliverables of the role:
Overall content development/management and admin:
- Ongoing development and management of local R&D innovation narrative.
- Narrative to include talent initiatives.
- Development and management of India Eng blog content.
- 2 x quarter India focused talent spotlights (owned content) + development of associated content and relevant earned opportunities.
- Increase eng blogs from India by 3-6 x quarter (can be leveraged for earned media). Blog content to focus on Indian innovation.
- Support on global content review where applicable
- Review all relevant local Indian engineering speaker engagements
- Monthly report on activity to Samir/TA/local eng leadership
Earned media:
- Management of local earned activity and ongoing proactive press calender for relevant media (tech/lifestyle for talent/business).
- Development of new media relationships in market for LinkedIn with technical media.
- Earned story mining and proactive media relations generation for India market.
- Partner with trust comms on relevant local campaign
- Support on global campaigns in India where relevant.
- Increase in earned media KPIs in India – tech/talent stories
- Earned media support in India (6-12 stories quarter)
Executive profiling:
- Identity and lead on proactive Tier 1 external speaking engagements. 1 x quarter top tier speaking opportunities for engineering execs (paid). Potential to leverage visiting VPs.
- 1-3 x quarter pieces of on platform content for key engineering executives to support (Kumaresh, Malai, new AI lead, Vinay)
- Management of engineering leadership visits to India (1 x press story for relevant executives per trip – working in partnership with India heads of comms on media strategy)
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of external communications experience
- Minimum B.S./B.A in Broadcast Journalism / Communications / Public Relations / English
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience focused on servicing the tech sector in the social media space
- Solid understanding of business and media environment particularly in consumer technology
- Well-developed and well-maintained media relationships with Indian media, particularly in technology/innovation/HR
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Fantastic organizational skills and an innate ability to multitask and prioritize
- Strong understanding of public relations planning and implementation processes
- Very strong project management and decision-making skills
- Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and unstructured, deadline-oriented environment
- Possess a high degree of integrity and a sense of confidentiality
- Demonstrate managerial maturity and good judgment at all times
- The ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external relationships at all levels is critical to this position
Suggested skills:
- External communication
- Media Relations
- Talent Branding
- Public Relations
- Project Management
Technical Writer
About the job
LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and everyday millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world’s workforce in ways no other company can. We are much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology.
Creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce is a responsibility we all share. To truly transform the global economy, we must evolve the way we hire and enable our talent to serve people of all backgrounds and experiences. LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
This role will be based in Bangalore, India.
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.
We are looking for a Technical Writer to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for partnering with engineering and operations teams to help plan, write, and edit external engineering documentation at LinkedIn.
Please have 2-3 samples of your writing available to send on request. Provide an explanation of your role for each sample.
Responsibilities :
– Write and organize external engineering documentation and make it accessible and useful to engineers.
– Document complex internal and external APIs, infrastructure, systems, tools, and software engineering practices.
– Work with engineers and teams to help solve their information problems.
– Represent the Technical Documentation team on project teams and perform technical project leadership roles, while fostering teamwork and collaboration within and across work groups.
– Assist with engineering blog posts, conference papers, and presentations.
– Anticipate issues and address them proactively.
– Plan, coordinate, and execute documentation projects under very general direction.
– Participate in documentation craftsmanship efforts, including design and development of documentation distribution systems, writing and editing processes, and best practices.
– Help to improve the process of organizing and generating documentation.
Basic Qualifications :
– 2+ years experience as a technical writer
– Experience with API writing and development procedures, designing and organizing content for existing/new API products
– Experience working with customer support teams and clients to collect requirements for doc updates
– B.A. or B.S. in Technical Communications, Computer Science, or a related field
Preferred Qualifications :
– 4+ years experience as a technical writer
– 1+ years of developer experience with BE/B-Tech in Computer Science or IT
– Excellent written and Verbal communication skills
– Strong work ethic and drive for high-quality results
– Strong organizational skills
– Prior experience in Internet technology
– Knowledge of Python, Java, or other programming language
– Experience with in-code documentation systems (such as Sphinx)
Suggested Skills :
– Technical Blog Writing
– Developer Guides & Tutorials
– REST API, GIT, MD File Formatting, Release
– Stakeholder Management
– Planning and Project Management
Account Executive, LinkedIn Sales Solutions
Job Description
Location: Bangalore / Gurgaon / Mumbai
LinkedIn’s Sales Solutions team is dedicated to changing the world of sales through the use of Sales Navigator, our flagship product that connects and builds mutually beneficial relationships between buyers and sellers. As an Account Executive, you will use your strategic social selling skills to educate prospective customers on the benefits and value of Sales Navigator. You will serve as a trusted adviser, share insights and continually seek opportunities for growth to make your customers as strong and successful as possible.
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.
Responsibilities:
- Inspire yourself, our company and your customers to embrace a new method of connecting value to customers
- Leverage your skills and your customers’ experience to continually evolve our product and the sales process
- Develop and execute strategic plans for your territory and create reliable forecasts
- Consistently over achieve the business and revenue objectives set forth in your plan
- Drive revenue by connecting with customers and building opportunities that will make all parties more successful
- Work to develop and circulate a set of best practices that will be the foundation of this growing team
- Listen to the needs of the market and share them with the Product and Marketing team
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications :
- 3+ years of experience in a quota-carrying sales role
- Experience in selling SaaS solutions, CRM platforms, or software platform solutions
Preferred Qualifications :
- Experience in a SaaS-based environment
- Experience using LinkedIn as a sales professional
- Proven history of overachieving quota and results in a large, high-growth company
- Demonstrated ability to find, manage and close high-level business sales
- Ability to assess business opportunities and read prospective buyers
- Ability to predictably forecast and execute business goals
- Ability to use insights and data-driven decisions in the sales process
- Ability to effectively build trust-based relationships with senior-level sales professionals
Suggested Skills:
- Data-driven decision making
- Forecasting
- Strategic thinking
