Principal Staff Software Engineer - Data Lake Infrastructure

[…] 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. This role will be based in Mountain View or Bellevue.

At […], 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 […] office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

The Data Lake Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational storage and table-management technologies powering […]'s data platform at massive scale. We own OpenHouse, […]'s open-source control plane for Apache Iceberg tables, along with the broader data lake stack (storage engines, table formats, metadata/catalog services, and compaction/retention systems) that serves thousands of internal teams, petabyte-scale datasets, and mission-critical analytics, ML, and AI workloads. We collaborate closely with open-source communities (Apache Iceberg,