Manager, Software Engineering - Developer Productivity

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, 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.

Team Description

The Automation Platform and Apps team builds the foundational intelligence and tooling layer that powers coding agents across LinkedIn’s Software Development Lifecycle. We provide the structured context, APIs, guardrails, and execution frameworks that allow agents to understand codebases, reason about system intent, and safely take action within engineering workflows. By unifying code intelligence, dependency graphs, build and test signals, documentation, and policy constraints, we enable agents to operate with high fidelity, reliability, and governance. Our mission is to transform coding agents from isolated assistants into deeply integrated, context-aware collaborators that accelerate development while maintaining quality, security, and compliance at scale.

Responsibilities:

• You will manage the performance and career development of a small team of engineers, and own significant parts of LinkedIn Developer productivity products that require design, architecture, and coding.

• You will participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap.

• You will be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.

• You will work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.

• You will develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.

• You will produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• 1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training

• 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and large-scale software engineering

• Experience programming in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (like Java/Python/C/C++/Scala/etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline

• 2+ years of hands-on software engineering/technical management and people management experience

• 7+ years industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions. 

• 5+ years programming experience in languages such as Java, C/C++, C#, Python, Go, etc.

• Knowledge and experience in SDLC and experience developing tools enhancing developer productivity

• Strong bias for action using agentic software development tools

• Experience in the design and development of performant, highly available, scalable web applications

• Understanding of common performance patterns and anti-patterns in distributed systems

• Successful track record of managing small teams of engineers to deliver multiple projects on time and with quality

• Active involvement in the creation and execution of technical strategies and roadmaps

• Hire and retain world-class engineers by providing career growth, mentoring, and high impact projects, while taking intelligent risks to improve the way work is done

 

Suggested Skills:

Technical Leadership

Communication

Software Design

Cross-organizational collaboration

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 $152,000 - $248,000. 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: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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