In the Code: Volume 1, Issue 5
Welcome back to Issue 5 of our LinkedIn Engineering In the Code e-newsletter, where we feature the 10th anniversary of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) and celebrate the women working to keep our platform safe and secure.
Read on for LinkedIn Engineering career stories, technical work, news stories, and some of our latest job openings!
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), we highlighted the remarkable women who work behind the scenes as safety and cybersecurity engineers.?
In a blog post authored by Angel Liu, she shares insights into the cybersecurity job market, the opportunity for women engineers, and why she believes women should consider pursuing a cybersecurity engineering career.?
Career stories: Four engineering careers. One LinkedIn.
Starting her career at LinkedIn in 2015 as a senior engineering manager, Shalini’s work with multiple teams at LinkedIn enabled her career growth and transformation.?
Now a Senior Director of Engineering, Shalini dives into LinkedIn’s Next Play culture, work-life balance, and the power of mentorship through LinkedIn’s engineering apprenticeship program, REACH.?
Career stories: From Hollywood videographer to frontend engineer
A self-taught developer, Kiope traded videography as a career to pursue her hobby full-time.?
Seeking a strong workplace culture and the opportunity to grow her skill sets further, Kiope has had the opportunity to work with her manager to find the best career fit at LinkedIn.
Taking Charge of Tables: Introducing OpenHouse for Big Data Management
At LinkedIn, leveraging data to drive decisions allows us to serve our members with better job insights and connect the world’s professionals.?
To provide an improved experience for our engineers, we built and deployed OpenHouse, a control plane that allows our developers to interface with managed tables in our open source data lakehouse.?
OpenHouse empowers users to collaborate, thereby transforming the way data lakes are operated and improving the way we leverage data to create a positive experience for our members. As the team increases production, they hope to share open sourcing plans.?
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From the Economic Graph to Economic Insights: Building the Infrastructure for Delivering Labor Market Insights from LinkedIn Data
Since its inception in 2015, the Economic Graph Research and Insights (EGRI) team has worked to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.
Over the last eight years, we have quadrupled the number of partner teams we work with — from two major stakeholders in 2015 to eight in 2023. To address the EGRI team's challenges, we assembled the EGRI Data Foundations Team (Team Asimov) with a charter of developing and managing our data ecosystem.?
For more on the team and how we’ve scaled our methodology for delivering data insights company-wide, visit our technical blog post.?
Information Week: Defining the CISO Role
As the CISO (chief information security officer) role continues to evolve, LinkedIn’s CISO, Geoff Belknap, shares his belief that, “We're out of the phase where we're deciding whether this is a flash in the pan.”
In this article from Information Week, Geoff shares insights into how he found a career in cybersecurity, his role at LinkedIn, and how the CISO role is evolving.
InfoQ: How LinkedIn Serves over 4.8 Million Member Profiles per Second
At its peak, LinkedIn serves over 4.8 million member profiles per second, with the number of requests to our storage infrastructure doubling yearly.??
To improve the speed of profile requests, we’ve introduced Couchbase as a centralized storage tier cache for read scaling. For more on how we achieved a cache hit rate of over 99%, reduced tail latencies by more than 60%, and trimmed the cost to serve by 10% annually, check out this article from InfoQ.
Find your next play today! Check out these, and other engineering jobs at LinkedIn across our 8+ global engineering hubs at lnkd.in/EngJobs:
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From scaling our platform to designing what’s next, LinkedIn Engineering is building what's needed to connect the world's professionals to economic opportunity through the largest and most trusted professional platform.
Our collaborative team ethically crafts quality solutions for business-to-business (B2B) marketing, B2B sales, talent, learning, and our members — helping job seekers, businesses, and learners maximize their potential.?
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