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• Overview

  LinkedIn is hiring a Director of Engineering in Florence, KY.

• Role description

  Somewhere between the whiteboard sketch and the green deploy badge is the Director of Engineering role we're opening in Florence, KY. Trade your Cross-Functional Collaboration and 12 years for $174,000 - $252,000 at LinkedIn, and the growth that follows is yours to build.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Carry a remote-native Terraform feature through code freeze without breaking LinkedIn stability
  • Tune Git queries until the KY database stops timing out under load
  • Read the Negotiation stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
  • Defend LinkedIn uptime through the 2 a.m. Florence pages nobody volunteers for
  • Map data flow across LinkedIn's Node.js services and spot the leaks

  What You'll Bring

  • Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a director capacity
  • A Florence network, or the hustle to build one from scratch
  • Familiarity with the Florence market and local technology landscape
  • Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards
  • The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking

  The deeply collaborative people at LinkedIn have spent years proving that world-class JavaScript can absolutely come out of Florence. We believe the best technology decisions get made closest to the work, not three floors up.

  You get $174,000 - $252,000, a growth runway, a mentor, full benefits, and a flexible Florence, KY setup, no fine print, no catch.

  The search for a Director of Engineering is in full swing, and we want to fill it soon.

  Skip the long deliberation; apply to the Director of Engineering role and let us answer your doubts.

• Required skills

  • Terraform
  • Angular
  • C#
  • Java
  • Vue.js
  • Docker
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Git
  • MySQL
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Negotiation
  • Creativity

• Benefits & perks

  • Disaster relief assistance
  • Hybrid Work
  • Retiree medical benefits
  • Meditation and mindfulness apps
  • Professional development budget
  • Gym Membership
  • Free laptop and tech setup
  • Outplacement services

• Apply before 2026-08-27

  Submit your application for this Freelance technology position.