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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.\nLinkedIn operates one of the largest privately managed compute infrastructures in the world outside of the public cloud providers. As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Compute Infrastructure team, you will lead a critical area of the organization responsible for shaping and evolving the foundational compute platform that powers LinkedIn’s global products, business, and AI-first future.\nLinkedIn’s Compute Infrastructure stack serves as our internal private cloud, supporting everything from the real-time services behind products serving over a billion members, to large-scale data and analytics pipelines processing petabytes daily, to the AI/ML infrastructure powering recommendations, search relevance, and generative AI at scale. The platform is deeply Kubernetes-centric and purpose-built to meet LinkedIn’s unique challenges around scale, reliability, performance, efficiency, and rapidly growing AI compute demands.\nAs part of our world-class software engineering organization, you will set the vision and multi-year strategy for key areas of LinkedIn’s next-generation compute infrastructure. You will lead teams building and operating highly distributed systems at massive scale, bringing a strong systems orientation across areas such as distributed systems, concurrency, scalability, performance, resource management, and API design. Your organization will leverage and contribute to modern cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and gRPC while solving infrastructure challenges at a scale and level of complexity few engineering organizations encounter.\nAs a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow a high-performing organization of infrastructure engineers and engineering leaders, setting priorities and driving execution across complex, multi-year initiatives. You will make critical architectural and investment trade-offs across reliability, scalability, efficiency, developer velocity, and long-term platform health.\nYou will also play a key role in developing engineering leaders, raising the bar for technical and operational excellence, and building an inclusive, high-performing organization capable of delivering foundational infrastructure with company-wide impact.\nResponsibilities\nLead, coach, and scale a multi-team organization of engineers and engineering managers working on core infrastructure platforms.\nPartner with senior and executive management to define, champion, and execute a long-term technology roadmap and vision for LinkedIn’s core infrastructure.\nDrive deep technical and architectural discussions, challenge the status quo, and steer complex cross-functional directions to push the envelope of system performance.\nCommunicate and collaborate effectively with executive stakeholders across engineering, product, and business leadership to align organizational goals.\nScale the organization by setting clear expectations, openly evaluating performance, upholding high accountability, and actively coaching future leaders (managers and principal/staff engineers) to stretch their skills.\nDrive a culture of operational excellence and architectural rigor. Lead the organization into defining performance goals and metrics, and build the infrastructure necessary to maintain a world-class quality bar and detect issues in real time.\nCreate an inclusive work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation, and learning across multiple teams, while holding an elite bar for engineering quality.\n Basic Qualifications\nBA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n3+ years of experience in software engineering/technical management and people management.\n7+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large-scale software engineering\nExperience programming in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages(like Java/CPP/Scala/etc.)\nHands on experience developing distributed systems, databases, large scale data systems and/or Backend API's\nPreferred Qualifications\nMS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline\n4+ years of software engineering management experience\n2+ years exp managing managers\nSuggested Skills\nTechnical Leadership\nPeople Management\nStakeholder Management\nLinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.\nThe pay range for this role is $198,000 to $326,000. 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. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.\nSan Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nPay Transparency Policy Statement\nAs a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.\nGlobal Data Privacy Notice and Compliance Posters for Job Candidates\nPlease use this link to access documents that provide information about how LinkedIn handles the personal data of employees and job applicants, as well as the E-Verify Participation Notice and the Department of Justice Immigrant and Employee Rights Section Right to Work posters: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/candidate-portal.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8921,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Job Boards & Aggregators","Professional Networks"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T12:24:37Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":71,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.793,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":12,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:1","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-14T20:34:13Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":326000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/linkedin-sr-manager-software-engineering-compute-infrastructure","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/linkedin-sr-manager-software-engineering-compute-infrastructure.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T20:34:13Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":27371,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":13163},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=13163"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flinkedin-sr-manager-software-engineering-compute-infrastructure"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flinkedin-sr-manager-software-engineering-compute-infrastructure"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flinkedin-sr-manager-software-engineering-compute-infrastructure"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/linkedin-sr-manager-software-engineering-compute-infrastructure\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flinkedin-sr-manager-software-engineering-compute-infrastructure"}]}