Principal Staff Software Engineer, Linkedin Learning Solutions

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. 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 effici...