Senior Engineer, Site Reliability at LinkedIn3

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. At LinkedIn, the Productivity Engineering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team plays a critical role in ensuring our enterprise business applications are reliable, scalable, secure, and highly automated. We are seeking a Senior Engineer,  Site Reliability (Sr. SRE) to design, build, and operate highly reliable systems that power mission-critical financial and enterprise applications. In this role, you will partner closely with Development and SRE teams from early design through production, driving improvements in reliability, performance, and scalability across complex application ecosystems. You will collaborate with cross-functional infrastructure teams to modernize and scale financial systems platforms. You will lead and contribute to key initiatives across application, database, and middleware layers, including performance optimization, observability, and modernization from legacy to modern platforms. This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer who thrives on solving complex production challenges, driving automation at scale, and building resilient systems. Responsibilities • Partner with development teams to influence system design for reliability, scalability, and performance from early stages. • Define and implement SRE practices including SLOs, SLAs, SLIs, error budgets, and operational readiness. • Own end‑to‑end production and development operations, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis. • Troubleshoot and resolve issues across application, database, middleware, and infrastructure layers. • Automate operational workflows to reduce manual effort and improve system reliability. • Contribute to observability strategy across monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms. • Build and improve internal tools and platforms to increase engineering productivity and operational efficiency. • Improve deployment, release, and change management processes through automation and standardization. • Perform performance tuning, capacity planning, and system optimization across distributed systems. • Support modernization initiatives, including cloud migrations and adoption of new technologies. • Collaborate across development, infrastructure, and business teams to deliver scalable solutions. • Participate in on‑call rotations and support 24x7 production operations through shift‑based coverage.