Staff Software Engineer, Conversion Data Privacy

1 hour, 27 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

  • Lead the technical strategy and architecture for conversion data privacy across access controls, de-identification, deletion, and privacy rules enforcement.
  • Design and evolve core privacy infrastructure, including controlled environments for sensitive data, fine-grained authorization, and centralized policy enforcement.
  • Own de-identification pipelines end to end, from data separation and transformation to privacy-preserving dataset generation and validation.
  • Build privacy frameworks and tooling that make safe, compliant conversion data usage easier for downstream teams.
  • Define SLAs and drive operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and deletion and leakage-handling workflows.
  • Partner with Product, Data Science, Legal, Compliance, ads, data, and infrastructure teams to translate requirements into technical designs and roadmaps.
  • Make trade-offs between privacy and data utility while supporting launches and policy changes that affect advertisers and users.
  • Mentor engineers across multiple teams, lead design and code reviews, and establish privacy-by-design best practices and documentation.

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on large-scale data systems or distributed systems.
  • Strong experience building and operating data pipelines and services using Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Python, plus SQL.
  • Experience designing secure, reliable systems and APIs with strong data modeling, access control, and performance optimization skills.
  • Meaningful experience in at least one of: privacy-preserving data systems, ads measurement/attribution, or large-scale analytics/experimentation platforms.
  • Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives from design through rollout with product, data science, Legal, Compliance, or similar partners.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills, including mentoring engineers and making decisions in ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces.
  • Experience with modern big data ecosystems is a plus.
  • Experience with privacy-preserving methods such as de-identification or k-anonymity is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $177,185 to $364,795 USD for U.S.-based applicants.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Remote work indicated by #LI-REMOTE.
  • PinFlex working model with location and day-to-day flexibility.
  • No relocation assistance is provided for this position.
  • Pinterest shares information about company culture and benefits available for the role.
  • Accommodations are available during the application process for applicants who need medical or religious support.

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