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 LinkedIn’s 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

Department: Engineering
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level