Staff Software Engineer - Identity and Verifications Team

Staff Software Engineer - Identity and Verifications TeamLinkedIn's Trust Verifications team is building the identity and trust infrastructure that helps make LinkedIn a safer and more authentic professional network.Our systems power verification experiences and trusted identity signals across LinkedIn, supporting use cases spanning member identity, employment and workplace verification, trusted hiring experiences, and portable professional identity across partner ecosystems.The technical problems we solve sit at the intersection of digital identity, trust and abuse prevention, distributed systems, high-scale serving infrastructure, partner APIs, and member-facing product experiences. We build platforms that integrate with multiple identity providers and verification methods, process signals across real-time, nearline, and offline systems, and make trustworthy verification data available safely and reliably across LinkedIn products and external integrations.We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a system architect and technical anchor for our Trust and Verifications organization.This role sits at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, identity and trust infrastructure, product architecture, reliability, data, and business strategy. You will partner closely with engineering and product leadership to translate ambiguous product and business opportunities into scalable technical strategies and durable platform capabilities.You will be expected to see beyond an individual service or project: understand how systems interact across organizational boundaries, identify where common abstractions and platform investments are needed, and make architectural decisions that allow the organization to move faster over time.The ideal candidate combines deep backend and distributed-systems expertise with strong product judgment.

You can move fluidly between business goals, product requirements, APIs, data models, storage systems, distributed workflows, operational characteristics, and measurable outcomes.You bring a high technical bar, meticulous attention to detail, strong ownership, intellectual curiosity, and a solutions-oriented mindset. You proactively identify risks, failure modes, and edge cases; communicate clearly when trade-offs exist; and help teams converge on pragmatic architectures that are scalable, reliable, secure, and evolvable.QualificationsBasic QualificationsBA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.4+ years experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.4+ years programming experience in object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, or Ruby.Preferred QualificationsBS and 8+ years of relevant experience, MS and 7+ years of relevant experience, or PhD and 4+ years of relevant experience.Demonstrated experience owning the architecture of large-scale distributed systems serving high-volume, business-critical workloads.Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, including consistency, availability, idempotency, retries, distributed state, failure recovery, and asynchronous system design.Strong experience with relational and non-relational storage systems, including data modeling, indexing, consistency models, scaling strategies, and operational trade-offs.Proven experience designing event-driven and message-streaming architectures and systems spanning online, nearline, streaming, and offline processing.Strong experience designing APIs and platform abstractions consumed by multiple products, engineering teams, or external partners.Experience building highly reliable systems with strong practices around observability, SLOs, capacity management, dependency resilience, failure isolation, and automated recovery.Strong product judgement, analytical and metrics orientation, with experience connecting infrastructure and system metrics to product, customer, or business outcomes.Proven ability to take ambiguous, cross-functional business problems and convert them into clear technical strategies and multi-quarter architectural roadmaps.Experience authoring technical strategy documents and RFCs and driving architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams.Demonstrated ability to influence senior engineers, product leaders, and engineering leadership across organizational boundaries.Experience with digital identity, trust, security, privacy, fraud and abuse prevention, API platforms, or other high-integrity systems is a strong plus.Core Skills for SuccessTechnical LeadershipArchitectural MasteryOps Excellence, Code Review and Quality AssuranceMeticulous Risk Analysis & Edge-Case Identification around Trust & SafetyMentoring and Knowledge Sharing