Quoting from elsewhere:
LinkedIn’s Core Infrastructure group needs to hire in the email space. There’s flexibility across the following skill areas, whether it’s specific platforms/technologies or more experience with deliverability versus engineering. The PSSE Mail team operates an in-house ESP (effectively) that delivers roughly 1 billion email messages per weekday to our members and customers. (The composer, campaigns and targeting are handled by partner teams). We handle operations, but are also expected to act as subject matter experts on general email deliverability; interpret requirements from mailbox providers like Apple, Google, and Yahoo; and review and advise on proposed email-based products or sometimes individual campaigns/templates.
Skills needed include:
- Configuring and operating MTAs - for example Momentum, Halon, Kumo, Postfix
- Email sender best practices and deliverability
- Using systems like Puppet and Ansible for configuration and deployment management
- Building, operating, and orchestrating software in containerized systems like Kubernetes
And answering some questions:
- This would be a software engineering position, so engineering interview track
- Biased towards operations and deliverability, but you have scope to act as an SME for inbound hygiene, platform anti-abuse where it meets email, etc.
- So yes, you configure the MTA, manage the herd of containers via our orchestration platform, etc. Analyze/model traffic volumes to particular mailbox providers and implement or update rate limits across the herd.
- But if it’s in your skillset, or you want to make it so, take on packaging/updating the containers, feeding events/log data into what-comes-after-Kafka, deploying/implementing new authentication protocols (DKIM2), deploy a gRPC submission end point for our composer/scheduler to use and coordinate migration, etc.
- At times we can have a lot of interaction with Abuse Desk, Trust & Safety, ATO/Investigations, InfoSec/insider threat, executive escalations, you name it.
- Level/title should be based on experience, so SWE, Staff, etc. But from what I’m told, an IC not a manager. Could be team lead, though.
- LOCATION: SF Bay Area local, remote work is not an option
I don’t have an open req on any of the usual websites or LinkedIn (ahem), but my manager and director are asking me to put applicants in touch with them, and they’ll facilitate the link to HR.
If this sounds interesting or you have questions, please feel free to write to sejones@linkedin.com. DMs here are fine too, but I might not spot it right away.