Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust Engineering

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.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn you will set the technical direction for and lead teams in the implementation of Trust Experience and Regulatory Compliance solutions. As a key leader in the organization you will research build software anticipate and influence architectures in other parts of the company influence how products are built at LinkedIn set the bar for operational health and excellence while continuing to deliver member value. You will design technical solutions for the ecosystem across surfaces to create a cohesive and compliant experience for our members. You will act as the bridge between business and technology to help translate compliance objectives into technical specifications design the architecture and ensure the solution aligns with our regulatory obligations. This involves collaborating with multiple stakeholders and being comfortable operating in a matrix environment. Maintain member trust and regulator confidence through provable continuous compliance solutions. You will enable LinkedIn to maintain member trust and regulator confidence through provable continuous compliance solutions while reducing risk and enabling developer velocity.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a technical leader helping shape the long-term member transparency controls and compliance engineering strategy and driving technical decisions within the organization. Ensure that needs are met through well designed and effectively implemented technology solutions.
• Stay ahead of evolving privacy digital-platform and AI regulations translating new and anticipated obligations into pragmatic engineering direction
• Architect solutions that complement both existing and new systems at LinkedIn to maintain member trust and enable compliance by design. 
• Partner closely and across multiple engineering teams to raise the bar for trust experiences and ensure e2e compliance.
• Analyze complex systems problems and drive meaningful engineering and product decisions by balancing the risk compliance and member value.
• Contribute to a multi-year initiative to transition and transform LinkedIns infrastructure to ensure continuous compliance even as regulations change and evolve. 
• Deliver key insights executive level reporting across the engineering teams to enable the right business decisions around improving trust and regulatory best practices
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers influencing technical direction across the org and contributing deeply to culture hiring and technical excellence
• Lead regulatory incident response and post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement preventive measures. Develop and maintain processes and procedures to ensure timely resolution of issues and minimize impact on members and customers

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or related practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in software design development and algorithm related solutions
• 5 years of experience in programming languages such as Python Java C/C C#
• 2 years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position 
• 2 years experience delivering engineering solutions in a regulatory compliance privacy or any trust and safety domain

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS and 10 years of relevant work experience MS and 8 years of relevant work experience or PhD and 6 years of relevant work experience.
• Hands-on experience building engineering solutions for large compliance initiatives - Examples include DMA GPDR DSA AI Act.
• Hands-on experience in the trust and safety domain
• Work experience in the technology industry
• Hands on experience building engineering solutions for internet scale products.
• Proven success designing and leading architectural transformations at internet-scale companies
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills with experience influencing across multiple orgs and leadership levels
• Deep knowledge of various data systems particularly around management of data.
• Track record of setting long-term technical strategy and driving systemic improvements to meet regulatory and compliance requirements
• Growth mindset to keep up with evolving technology and regulatory landscape and agility to adapt quickly
• Business acumen to understand the business outcomes and align technical solutions with compliance requirements while balancing business outcomes. 

Suggested Skills: 

• Software Engineering
• Regulatory & Compliance
• Technical leadership
• Trust & Safety
• Crossfunctional work

Additional Information :

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 $185000 - $304000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set years & depth of experience certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus stock benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information visit: Opportunity Statement 

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