Principal Staff Software Engineer, Linkedin Learning Solutions

Principal Staff Software Engineer, Linkedin Learning Solutions

Company Description

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.

Job Description

LinkedIn Learning Solutions Engineering India is a ground-up, AI-first org building scalable systems and consumer-grade experiences that connect skills, learning, career growth, and internal mobility across LinkedIn Learning and the enterprise Career Hub. Engineers own end-to-end delivery across web, mobile, backend, data, and AI - designing architectures for skills intelligence, skill-gap detection, personalized recommendations, workforce transformation, and internal mobility—while shaping engineering standards, culture, and hiring in a greenfield environment with LinkedIn’s scale.

LinkedIn Learning is entering a significant new phase of growth and innovation. What started as a learning platform has evolved into a much broader vision: helping organizations understand, develop, and transform workforce capabilities at scale. Our new Learning Solutions Engineering charter is going to be built ground-up from India exclusively and is building AI-powered experiences that connect skills, learning, career growth, and internal mobility.

The Learning Solutions Engineering team is being built to drive this next chapter. This is a rare opportunity to join a business that already serves millions of professionals globally while helping shape the future of AI-powered workforce transformation.

This role will be based in Bengaluru, India.

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will build and ship software, drive architectural decisions and implementation across distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• You will actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
• You will lead cross team/cross-functional discussions and drive alignment on product/technology strategy.
• You will define the bar for quality and efficiency of software systems while balancing business impact, operational impact and cost benefits of design and architectural choices.
• You will act as one of the primary domain experts to influence technology choices.
• You will lead by example to build a culture of craftsmanship and innovation.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 18+ years of experience in software design/development
• 18+ years experience in/with programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, or C++

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling consumer-facing products at large scale, with a strong focus on end-user experience and measurable customer impact.
• Experience building and shipping commercial AI/agentic products as customer-facing offerings. Proven track record of designing, developing, and operating agent-driven experiences that deliver clear customer value at scale.
• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience with object-oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Java, C++).
• Proven coding skills in a high level language with interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Experience with large scale automation across key enterprise personas
• Proven track record of leading and delivering complex software projects.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience building web applications and services with IDEs, ant, Junit, etc.
• Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.

Suggested Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Distributed Systems
• Software Design
• Technical Communication
• 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.

Additional Information

India Disability Policy 

LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. For more information on our equal opportunity policy, please visit https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/Policy_India_EqualOppPWD_9-12-2023.pdf

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates ​

Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.

India Disability Policy 

LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. For more information on our equal opportunity policy, please visit https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/Policy_India_EqualOppPWD_9-12-2023.pdf

Global Data Privacy Notice and Compliance Posters for Job Candidates 

Please use this link to access documents that provide information about how LinkedIn handles the personal data of employees and job applicants, as well as the E-Verify Participation Notice and the Department of Justice Immigrant and Employee Rights Section Right to Work posters: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/candidate-portal.

Experience Level

Executive Level