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
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.

You would be joining the Media Infra org as a tech lead for the Media SDK team. Media Infra is the platform responsible for handling all media uploads and playback on LinkedIn. Media SDK team builds client SDKs and libraries to enable upload and playback of all media types like Video, Images, Documents, Live and VC. The team sits at the intersection of infra and product, so your work directly impacts member experience.

Responsibilities:
• You will design and build multiple media libraries covering image, video etc, which are adopted across LinkedIn ecosystem family apps.
• You will follow industry developments and evaluate technologies from Apple, the open source world, and other LinkedIn teams to determine whether we should incorporate them to improve iOS developer productivity.
• You will work with LinkedIn's iOS developer community to understand their needs and propose solutions to accelerate product iteration speed.
• You will demonstrate craftsmanship and produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• You will provide technical leadership and use engineering best practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wide projects.
• You will run projects spanning dozens of teams to increase adoption of the latest technologies.
• You will design ways to structure our application and build system to minimize build time in our multi-million line codebase.
• You will constantly look for opportunities to improve trunk health, improve test infrastructure, and optimize build speed.
• You will work closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmap
• You will deliver impact by driving innovation while building and shipping software at scale
• You will provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization
• You will resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture

Basic Qualifications:
• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
• 5+ years programming experience in programming languages such as Objective-C, Swift, Java, C/C++, Python, etc.
• 2+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position

Preferred Qualifications:
• 10+ years of relevant work experience, including 4+ years of native mobile (iOS or Android) development
• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale.
• Expansive technical knowledge and experience with mobile application development (Android, iOS, Windows, or other).
• Deep knowledge of video playback frameworks such as AVFoundation, Core Media, and VideoToolbox.
• Experience with image rendering and processing using Core Graphics, Core Animation, and Core Image.
• Comprehensive knowledge of various media formats (e.g., MP4, MOV, HEVC), codecs, and streaming protocols such as HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)
• Familiarity with hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
• Experience leading by influence, formulating and driving technical strategies across various organizations
• Experience leading a large organization

Suggested Skills:
• Technical Leadership
• Architectural Mastery
• Code Review and Quality Assurance
• Cross-organizational collaboration
• Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing

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.

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $175,000 - $288,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/:b:/t/LinkedInGCI/EeE8sk7CTIdFmEp9ONzFOTEBM62TPrWLMHs4J1C_QxVTbg?e=5hfhpE. Please reference https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.

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Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

-Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
-Having interviews in an accessible location
-Being accompanied by a service dog
-Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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