Sr. Technical Program Manager, Data Engineering

1 hour, 33 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Project and Program Management
Pinterest

Pinterest

Pinterest is the world's first visual discovery engine, offering a vast dataset of ideas with over 200 billion recipes, home hacks, and style inspiration. With a mission to inspire everyone to create a life they love, Pinterest empowers its employees t...

Internet Software & Services
5K-10K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Lead multi-quarter data platform modernization programs across CDC/Kafka/Flink ingestion, Hive-to-Iceberg migrations, workflow consolidation, and legacy deprecation.
  • Coordinate migrations involving producer and consumer teams while managing timelines, dependencies, risks, and service owners.
  • Build and maintain dashboards and reporting covering progress, savings, risks, and key decisions.
  • Own reporting and tracking for a data infrastructure efficiency portfolio in partnership with team DRIs, finance, and InfraGov stakeholders.
  • Communicate technical tradeoffs and program status to engineers, business partners, and senior leadership.
  • Use GenAI to create program artifacts, streamline intake and reporting workflows, extract actions and decisions, and identify risks and escalation paths.
  • Prototype AI-assisted dashboards, analyses, workflow helpers, and internal tools to improve decision-making and operational efficiency.
  • Apply Pinterest’s AI governance and safety practices, including sensitive-data handling, output validation, documentation, and compliance review.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Technical Program Management experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs.
  • Experience with large-scale data platforms, streaming systems, or data infrastructure modernization.
  • Understanding of batch and streaming pipelines, storage layers, table formats, workflow orchestrators, and modernization tradeoffs.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including dashboard development, data interpretation, and savings validation.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills with senior engineering and business stakeholders.
  • Ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity and shifting priorities across multiple workstreams.
  • Experience with Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, or related data platform technologies preferred.
  • Experience using GenAI, prompting, AI coding assistants, dashboards, data analysis, or agents to reduce operational toil preferred.
  • Knowledge of AI governance, risk assessment, data handling, output validation, and auditability.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $123,684–$254,644 USD for US-based applicants.
  • Eligibility for equity compensation.
  • Remote work arrangement with in-office collaboration required 1–2 times every six months.
  • Role can be based anywhere in the country and is not eligible for relocation assistance.
  • Pinterest provides an inclusive, equitable workplace and equal employment opportunity.

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