Staff Software Engineer, Service Communications

1 month, 2 weeks 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

  • Architect and deploy advanced service mesh features using Envoy proxy, including service discovery, traffic shaping, and observability.
  • Lead adoption of service identity and mTLS to meet security requirements for service-to-service communication.
  • Design traffic optimization mechanisms such as locality-aware routing to reduce data transfer costs.
  • Maintain and modernize internal service framework libraries in Java, Python, and C++.
  • Collaborate with service owners across the company to drive platform adoption and refine infrastructure requirements.
  • Partner with infrastructure teams on multi-region and multi-cloud communication strategies.
  • Use AI to accelerate analysis and iteration while validating correctness and quality.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation, handle incident response, and lead post-mortems and reliability improvements.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience in distributed systems or RPC framework development.
  • Deep technical expertise with service mesh technologies such as Envoy or Istio, including L7 proxying.
  • Proficiency in Java, Python, and C++, with experience building internal libraries or developer tools.
  • Strong understanding of service security, including mTLS adoption and identity management via SPIFFE/SPIRE.
  • Experience designing highly available and efficient distributed systems at massive scale.
  • Proven ability to drive adoption of complex platform capabilities across cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Experience using AI to accelerate engineering workflows, with a clear approach to validating accuracy and quality.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
  • Ability to travel to the office for in-person collaboration 1–2 times every 6 months; the role can be based anywhere in the country.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $177,185 to $364,795 USD for U.S.-based applicants.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Flexible working model with remote work possible anywhere in the country.
  • In-person collaboration required only 1–2 times every 6 months.
  • Access to Pinterest’s culture and benefits information for the role.
  • Medical or religious accommodation support during the application process.

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