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High — Tier-1 employer, popular backend senior role, metro location, and broad required skillset.
Medium — backend platform skills transfer across industries, but enterprise authorization and scale add specificity.
High — explicit 7+ years and mandatory Java, distributed systems, databases, and streaming expertise.
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Design and develop scalable, high-throughput, data-intensive enterprise platforms serving all LinkedIn paid products.
Own and maintain a large platform including 200+ APIs, 150+ data tables handling over 90TB of data, and systems managing 500K+ peak RPS.
Implement multi-tier, reliable applications with focus on user and license management, identity and access management, supporting cross-product workflows.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of software design and development experience, including algorithms and object-oriented programming (Java or similar).
Experience with designing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems and high-volume data processing platforms.
Work location is hybrid (combination of remote and LinkedIn office as per business needs).
Proven expertise in building platforms for centralized authorization or security leveraged by multiple teams.
Strong hands-on knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases with focus on data modeling and operational reliability.
Experience with real-time data streaming frameworks (Kafka, Flink, Beam) and event-driven architectures; skilled at system bottleneck analysis and data integrity at scale.