Staff Software Engineer - KMS & Cryptography

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. 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.Securing and protecting data is core to building trust with our members and for LinkedIn’s success. Within Information Security at LinkedIn, the mission of the Key Management and Cryptography team is to secure and protect our members’ data by developing core security services to support management of encryption keys and application secrets. By building developer-friendly cryptographic libraries and APIs, we enable engineering teams across the company to create secure features to protect our members’ data. Trust is a key building block in LinkedIn’s commitment to putting our members first, and we are an important part of that commitment.As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading and executing on complex projects, and designing and developing scalable services and developer-friendly libraries to empower LinkedIn to defend against the misuse of data. We are looking for an engineer with sound technical acumen, and the ability to lead and grow other engineers on the team. You will own your space and have the unique opportunity to influence the long-term vision and technology roadmap for KMS and Cryptography at LinkedIn.Responsibilities:You will provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide critical programs.You will scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.You will develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.You will produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity.You will participate in key technical and design discussions with technical leads in the team.You will collaborate with other teams and partners to define and execute on projects. Basic Qualifications:BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or r...