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Additional Information

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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.

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Job Description

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA

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.

The QA Agent team is focused on building and evolving an AI-driven testing platform that automates quality validation across web, iOS, and Android experiences. The team's core product, QA Agent, combines AI-powered navigation, bug detection, and cross-platform test execution to help identify product issues through realistic end-to-end testing. The platform is designed to explore products similarly to a human tester, detect issues ranging from obvious failures to increasingly subtle defects, and support testing across multiple environments and devices. This role will lead a team responsible for advancing both the product and technical foundations of the QA Agent platform. The manager will help guide investments across AI, infrastructure, and product-focused initiatives while partnering closely with engineering and product stakeholders. Success in the role requires balancing technical depth with broad systems thinking, helping the team scale the platform, expand its capabilities, and deliver meaningful quality improvements across the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and manage core team of engineers working on building the infrastructure.

• Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap for the team and company.

• Have the ability to dive deep into technical discussions to challenge the status quo, and steer the team in the right direction/to push the envelope.

• Communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across engineering and business leadership.

• Help the team realize their potential by setting clear expectations, openly evaluating performance, upholding accountability, and providing challenges to stretch their skills.

• Drive a culture of operational excellence. Lead the team into defining performance goals, metrics and building the infrastructure and tooling necessary to maintain a high quality bar and detect issues in real time.

• Create an inclusive work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation and learning, while holding a high bar for quality.

• You will provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute critical, large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wide programs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent related experience

• 1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training

• 5+ years industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.

• 3+ years experience in large-scale system design and software development

• Experience programming in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (like Java/Python/C/C++/Scala/etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline

• 2+ years of hands-on software engineering/technical management and people management experience

• 1+ years experience leading developer productivity and quality automation efforts

• 5+ years programming experience in languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go, Rust, C# and/or Functional languages such as Scala or other relevant coding languages.

• Experience in architecting, building, and running large-scale distributed systems

• Experience in the design and development of performant, highly available, scalable web applications

• Successful track record of managing teams of engineers to deliver multiple projects on time and with quality

• Active involvement in the creation and execution of technical strategies and roadmaps

Suggested Skills

• Object-oriented programming

• Web services

• Infrastructure

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 - $287,000. 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.