Sr. Staff Engineer, Data Center

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.

This role will be based in Mountain View CA Hillsboro OR Richardson TX Plano TX or Manassas VA.

The Data Center Engineering (DCE) team designs builds commissions and supports the lifecycle management of the physical facilities and infrastructure that enable critical IT systems applications and data. The team leads site and technical evaluations develops global engineering standards supports colocation lease requirements and oversees the design construction commissioning operational readiness and maintenance of data center infrastructure. Data Center Engineers ensure the safety stability reliability resiliency security and efficiency of data center operations to meet stringent availability and performance targets. They also lead root cause analysis (RCA) investigations drive corrective actions and continuous improvements and collaborate closely with colocation providers design consultants contractors equipment manufacturers and internal stakeholders while enforcing applicable safety codes industry standards and engineering best practices.

Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) Engineers within the DCE team apply deep electrical and mechanical engineering expertise across power cooling controls and emerging high-density infrastructure technologies including liquid cooling. They evaluate design construct commission operate and maintain resilient and scalable data center facilities while balancing technical performance energy efficiency operational risk maintainability cost and long-term capacity requirements.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead site selection and technical evaluation of data center engineering documents expansions and data hall fit-outs including review of electrical one-line diagrams mechanical system designs and infrastructure layouts. Partner with data center providers to define measure and enforce lease SLAs; assess power and cooling capacity; and ensure compliance with LinkedIns redundancy resiliency and availability standards.
• Lead technical due diligence and infrastructure negotiations for colocation leases amendments and expansions. Translate business and capacity requirements into enforceable technical provisions covering capacity delivery system performance demarcation of responsibilities commissioning maintenance reporting emergency response and service-level remedies.
• Develop and maintain system-level resiliency and redundancy models that define load distribution failover sequences and power/cooling interdependencies to ensure infrastructure designs meet LinkedIns Tier-level and NX performance criteria.
• Oversee the design and construction of new data centers expansions and retrofits ensuring that electrical and mechanical systems meet design intent testing protocols commissioning standards and overall project delivery timelines.
• Lead LinkedIns liquid-cooling deployment strategy by assessing direct-to-chip cooling technologies comparing performance tradeoffs and operational impacts and providing data-driven recommendations to leadership for scalable implementation. Create appropriate metrics and tools to support system monitoring and maintenance.
• Perform and review advanced electrical and mechanical calculations and analyses including load flow short-circuit coordination arc-flash and CFD modeling to validate system performance and capacity under normal and failure conditions.
• Lead data center design standardization efforts including the development maintenance and continuous improvement of global Basis of Design (BOD) documentation. Define and update owners requirements design drawings technical specifications bills of materials and performance benchmarks to ensure consistency across regions and providers.
• Lead and oversee commissioning and Integrated Systems Testing (IST) of new data center spaces retrofits and upgrades verifying end-to-end system performance against design specifications and operational requirements.
• Evaluate qualify and approve new electrical and mechanical systems equipment and components including vendor qualification and product testing to ensure standardization performance and long-term reliability across the global data center fleet.
• Develop and validate operational-readiness requirements failure-response procedures escalation paths and contingency plans for new and existing infrastructure. Partner with operations teams and data center providers to ensure personnel documentation spare parts monitoring and response capabilities are in place before production deployment.
• Develop and manage a comprehensive preventive and corrective maintenance program in collaboration with data center providers facility operators and internal operations teams.
• Lead technical investigations and root cause analyses (RCAs) for electrical and mechanical incidents driving corrective actions design improvements and the adoption of global best practices.
• Translate complex engineering analyses infrastructure risks and commercial tradeoffs into concise executive-level communications and decision materials. Present clear recommendations to senior leadership while retaining the ability to engage deeply with engineers operators contractors providers and equipment manufacturers.
• Maintain and govern as-built documentation and technical records ensuring drawings submittals test reports and configuration data are accurate version-controlled and accessible to engineering capacity planning and operations teams.
• Review and assess maintenance notifications Methods of Procedure (MOPs) and change events for operational impact risk classification and compliance with resiliency standards and maintenance protocols.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with capacity planning hardware engineering and network operations teams to forecast infrastructure growth plan scalable expansion and optimize power utilization and energy efficiency.
• Provide mentorship and advanced technical training to engineering and operations teams including troubleshooting electrical and mechanical systems and diagnosing issues such as phase imbalance protection coordination thermal irregularities and direct-to-chip liquid-cooling system failures.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Mechanical Industrial Process or a related engineering discipline.
• 10 years of experience defining designing constructing commissioning operating or maintaining mission-critical infrastructure.
• 7 years of direct experience leading data center design construction field engineering commissioning or major infrastructure retrofit programs.
• Experience developing and/or executing large-scale critical infrastructure maintenance reliability and operational-readiness programs.
• Experience evaluating electrical and mechanical infrastructure interdependencies system redundancy and failure scenarios within mission-critical environments.
• Experience collaborating with colocation providers engineering consultants contractors commissioning agents equipment manufacturers and internal operations teams.
• Ability to develop clear consistent and actionable technical documentation for use by engineering operations capacity planning and other partner teams.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent mission-critical initiatives and communicate technical risks tradeoffs and recommendations effectively across engineering and leadership audiences.
• Professional certifications such as Professional Engineer (PE) Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Project Management Professional (PMP)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters or doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Materials Engineering Reliability Engineering or related field AND 4 years of experience in mission-critical infrastructure technical project management or program management.
• 12 years of direct data center design construction and commissioning experience with a hyperscaler colocation provider or contractor.
• Experience leading technical due diligence site evaluations colocation infrastructure negotiations or development and enforcement of technical lease requirements and service-level agreements.
• Experience with high-density data center infrastructure and liquid-cooling technologies including controls monitoring and operational-readiness requirements.
• Working knowledge of both electrical and mechanical data center systems with deep technical expertise in at least one discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to manage prioritize and successfully execute multiple concurrent mission-critical projects and drive technical standards decisions and consensus across multiple organizational levels.

Suggested Skills:

• Data Center Site Evaluation Design & Construction Administration
• Colocation Technical Due Diligence Lease Requirements and SLA Management
• Basis of Design (BOD) Development & Standardization
• Electrical Power Distribution Design Protection and System Analysis
• Mechanical & Thermal Systems Engineering including CFD analysis
• High-Density Infrastructure and Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling
• Equipment Evaluation Vendor Qualification and Technical Procurement
• Data Center Facilities and Lifecycle Management
• Cross-Functional Technical Leadership and Executive Communication

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