Job Description
LinkedIn is the world’s 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. 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.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
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.
Our Production Network Engineering team is looking for a Senior Backbone & Edge Network Engineer to Design and Operate our Private Backbone to interconnect our NA Data Centers, Edge POP’s, External connectivity to Transits, Peers and Cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have a strong Routing, Traffic engineering expertise with DevOps and automation mindset.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the design and implementation of multi-vendor production networks spanning multiple data centers and locations including public cloud.
- Evaluation of new Platforms to meet the growing demands for high capacity and low latency interconnections.
- Develop strategy to mitigate DDOS events and run regular Chaos Monkey Activities to look for improvements to procedures.
- Conduct, Participate in capacity planning meetings and work with Service providers for evaluating, provisioning and troubleshooting Long-haul circuits.
- Manage Metro interconnections using DWDM transponders.
- Collaborate with the Network Software team to evolve SDN traffic engineer controllers to manage Inter-DC traffic.
- Plan and implement complex Hardware uplifts and Software upgrades in our Backbone.
- Develop and maintain tooling related to Network configuration Generation and automated deployments that can be Unit tested, Peer reviewed and continuously integrated.
- Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables related to your technical expertise and assigned domains
- Mentor and train other team members on coding standards, cloud-design patterns, and infrastructure architecture related to your technical expertise and assigned domains
- Participate in 12x7 on-call rotation, and be available to work with global teams in the event of critical outages
Basic Qualifications
- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
- 2+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
- 2+ years of programming experience in Golang, Python, Java, and/or C/C++.
Preferred Qualifications
- BS and 5+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 4+ years of relevant work experience, or Ph.D. +2 years of relevant work experience
Suggest Skills
Juniper
Network Security
Terraform
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.
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $121,000 to $198,000. 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
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