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Staff Software Engineer, Observability

4 days, 5 hours ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
Go Grafana Java Kafka Kubernetes Machine Learning OpenTelemetry Prometheus Python Scala
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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
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Description

  • Define and execute the observability roadmap based on engineering team needs and measurable impact.
  • Architect, build, and scale distributed observability infrastructure for metrics, logs, and traces.
  • Build high-performance data pipelines and storage for real-time and historical telemetry analysis.
  • Establish observability standards and patterns that make service instrumentation and insight generation easier for teams.
  • Mentor engineers, lead architectural reviews, and influence technical decisions across teams.
  • Partner with SRE, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and other teams to address pain points and improve reliability and productivity.
  • Evaluate and adopt new observability tools and techniques to keep the platform current.
  • Drive internal platform adoption through documentation, developer advocacy, and good user experience.
  • Explore and apply machine learning or anomaly detection techniques to observability use cases.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with data pipelines, time-series databases, columnar storage, stream processing, and data modeling at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with observability practices including metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling.
  • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability technologies.
  • Expert-level programming ability in Java, Python, Go, Scala, or similar languages.
  • Experience building observability platforms from the ground up or significantly scaling existing solutions.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and technologies such as Kubernetes and service mesh.
  • Demonstrated product mindset, including working backwards from customer needs, prioritizing features, measuring success, and iterating on feedback.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
  • Experience with machine learning or anomaly detection applied to observability use cases, preferred.
  • Contributions to open-source observability projects, a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $177,185 to $364,795 USD for U.S.-based applicants.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Flexible PinFlex working model with in-office collaboration only 1-2 times per quarter.
  • No relocation assistance available for this position.
  • Access to Pinterest culture and benefits information for the role.

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