Staff Capacity Infrastructure Engineer

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.

This role will be hybrid in LinkedIn’s Mountain View, CA campus.

The Capacity Engineering team shapes how LinkedIn’s infrastructure footprint is planned, scaled, and optimized to power reliable, high-performance services. We focus on forecasting usage patterns, baselining key capacity metrics, and uncovering efficiency opportunities — directly driving multi-million-dollar cost savings. This is a high-visibility team where engineering decisions influence how LinkedIn allocates its $1B+ infrastructure budget each year. 

We are looking for a Staff Capacity Infrastructure Engineer who will partner with Product and Infra teams to model demand, optimize capacity, and guide resource allocation across critical platforms. 

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end capacity planning for critical infrastructure domains (e.g., compute, storage, databases), spanning demand forecasting, supply planning, and execution to support LinkedIn’s growth.
• Lead quarterly and annual capacity planning cycles, including scenario modeling, tradeoff analysis, and executive-ready recommendations that inform infrastructure investment decisions.
• Develop and standardize capacity forecasting models and core planning metrics, ensuring consistent definitions and usage across Product, Infrastructure, and Finance teams.
• Identify and drive optimization of stranded or inefficient capacity, partnering cross-functionally to reclaim resources and deliver meaningful cost savings.
• Translate product roadmaps, growth signals, and technology changes into infrastructure and cost impact, influencing long-term platform and hardware strategy.
• Build scalable planning frameworks, tools, and automation that improve forecast accuracy, reduce manual effort, and enable capacity planning to scale with LinkedIn’s infrastructure footprint.

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience in capacity planning, infrastructure planning, or large-scale systems planning in distributed production environments.
• 5+ years of experience with data analysis and modeling tools (e.g., SQL, Python, spreadsheets or equivalent internal tooling)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to present tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations succinctly.
• Experience leading annual and quarterly planning cycles involving Finance, Product, and Infrastructure leadership.
• Experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.

Suggested Skills:

• Capacity Planning
• Infrastructure Optimization
• Stakeholder Management

 

You will Benefit from our Culture:

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LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $170,000 to $277,000. 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.

 

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