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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.\nJoin us to transform the way the world works.\n 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.\nThis role will be based in Mountain View, CA.\nAbout the Team and Role\nThe Product Platform & Infrastructure team builds the platforms that power the LinkedIn app, LinkedIn.com, and all product feature development for 1 billion+ professionals globally. The team is reimagining how our products are built for performance, reliability, and delight while building agentic workflows for end-to-end product development.\nOne of the major platforms the team builds is LinkedIn’s server-driven UI (SDUI) platform, which enables product teams to build and deliver experiences across Web, iOS, and Android through a shared development model. We build the frameworks, components, APIs, tools, and AI orchestration that connect product ideas to the experiences our members and customers use every day. Our success depends on how effectively product teams can create high-quality experiences on the platform to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.\nWe are looking for an engineering leader to drive the platform’s technical vision, strategy, adoption, and execution. You should understand the product stack from UI components, interaction patterns, and client rendering to frontend APIs and backend services - and care deeply about the people building and using our products. You will work closely with engineering, product, and design leaders to evolve our SDUI platform, complete platform migrations, and make it easier for teams to build great experiences independently. You will build industry-leading agentic development capabilities to enable anyone to go from idea to a product deployed to 1 billion+ member scale with unprecedented speed and stability.\nRoles and Responsibilities\nOwn the vision, technical strategy, and execution of LinkedIn’s SDUI platform for building product experiences across Web, iOS, and Android.\n\nManage a customer-first platform organization that understands product teams’ needs, works closely with them, and takes responsibility for removing friction.\n\nPartner with product and design leaders to translate experience requirements into reusable platform capabilities, balancing consistency with flexibility for different products.\n\nDrive SDUI adoption and migration across LinkedIn, with clear ownership, milestones, quality standards, and retirement plans for legacy systems.\n\nImprove the full experience of building on the platform, from learning it and creating UI to testing, debugging, experimenting, releasing, and operating products.\n\nGuide architectural decisions across UI frameworks, component systems, client rendering, frontend APIs, and backend integration.\n\nHold a high bar for the quality of experiences the platform enables, including responsiveness, accessibility, reliability, and appropriate behavior on each client platform.\n\nMeasure success through product team adoption and satisfaction, development speed, and the quality and performance of shipped experiences.\n\nLead and develop engineering managers and technical leaders, building an organization with strong technical judgment, product understanding, and accountability.\n\nMake the SDUI platform AI-ready through clear component contracts, machine-readable schemas, accessible documentation, and automated validation, enabling AI tools and agents to generate and modify experiences that meet our standards for design, accessibility, performance, and reliability.\n\n Basic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n\n10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years of engineering people management.\n\nExperience managing engineering managers and leading multiple engineering teams.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nMS or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.\n5+ years of experience managing managers and leading organizations of 50+ people.\n\nExperience building and leading shared platforms or frameworks used by product engineers to create user-facing applications.\n\nExperience working directly with product management and design teams to deliver platform capabilities that support product experiences.\n\nExperience driving technical initiatives across multiple teams and organizational boundaries.\n\nDeep technical experience with UI platforms, application frameworks, server-driven UI, or cross-platform product development.\n\nStrong understanding of the end-to-end product stack, including UI composition, state management, rendering, client-server interactions, frontend APIs, and backend services.\n\nExperience building platforms that support rich, responsive experiences across Web, iOS, and Android.\n\nDemonstrated customer-first judgment: seeking direct feedback from product teams, understanding their constraints, and changing platform priorities based on their needs.\n\nExperience partnering with design organizations on reusable components, interaction patterns, accessibility, and design-system integration.\n\nA track record of driving platform adoption and completing migrations while maintaining product quality and enabling ongoing feature development.\n\nExperience making developers more self-sufficient through well-designed APIs, tools, documentation, and debugging capabilities.\n\nA track record of developing strong engineering managers and senior technical leaders.\n\nExperience designing platforms or developer tools that support AI-assisted development, including the interfaces, context, and validation needed to produce reliable, production-quality results.\n\nSuggested Skills\nUI Platforms and Server-Driven UI\n\nProduct Stack Architecture\n\nCustomer-Focused Platform Development\n\nEngineering Organizational Leadership\n\nPlatform Adoption and Migration\n\nYou will Benefit from our Culture\nWe 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.\nLinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $242,000 to $398,000. 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.\nThe 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\n Equal Opportunity Statement\nWe seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are 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.\nLinkedIn 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.\nIf you need a Reasonable Accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us and describe the specific Accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.\nFill out an Accommodation request here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b660a0327d044969abfd7a4e73d15c36\nReasonable 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:\nDocuments in alternate formats or read aloud to you\nHaving interviews in an accessible location\nBeing accompanied by a service dog\nHaving a sign language interpreter present for the interview\nA 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.\nLinkedIn 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. 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