Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

2 hours, 6 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
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

  • Improve the efficiency of large-scale shared environments such as Kubernetes.
  • Improve the performance and efficiency of large-scale distributed systems that power Pinterest.
  • Build, develop, and mature profiling and optimization capabilities at Pinterest scale.
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and SRE teams to deliver highly available, resilient, secure, and efficient foundations.
  • Use AI to accelerate performance investigations by distilling logs, metrics, traces, and prior learnings.
  • Build tooling and agents that enable users to self-serve efficiency insights and recommendations.
  • Iterate on optimization approaches and rollout plans, then validate impact through experiments and production guardrails.
  • Partner with stakeholders on complex and ambiguous technical challenges related to performance engineering.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Deep understanding of infrastructure capacity and performance.
  • Experience leading efficiency initiatives at scale on Kubernetes or other large-scale shared infrastructure.
  • Strong technical and performance engineering skills for collaborating on complex technical challenges.
  • Experience building and managing highly available distributed applications at scale.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, and C++.
  • Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical issues.
  • Experience with AWS or similar cloud environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day workflow.
  • Strong track record of critically evaluating and verifying AI-assisted work through testing, source-checking, data validation, or peer review.
  • High integrity and ownership, including protecting sensitive data and remaining accountable for final decisions and deliverables.
  • Hands-on experience with large, cloud-native multi-tenant platforms at internet scale is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $177,185 to $364,795 USD for US-based applicants.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Remote-first flexibility with in-office collaboration only 1-2 times per quarter.
  • No relocation assistance for this role.
  • Access to Pinterest’s employee benefits and culture resources.

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