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About the Role

Pinterest's Service Configuration & Coordination team builds the platforms, APIs, and tooling that make dynamic configuration and service coordination safe, scalable, and reliable for every service across regions and clouds. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will own the end-to-end technical strategy and long-term vision for our configuration and coordination infrastructure, defining the future of these mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

Orchestrate the long-term technical vision for configuration ecosystems to ensure feature flags, ML settings, and experiments utilize unified paved paths.
Champion operational safety through standardized validation, staged rollout mechanisms, and robust governance frameworks across the organization.
Spearhead the transition from legacy substrates by migrating mission-critical use cases to modern platforms.
Establish scalable onboarding patterns that enable engineering teams to evolve their configuration lifecycle with precision and minimal friction.
Architect the next generation of control plane interfaces and diagnostic surfaces.
Engineer high-performance, read-optimized APIs to empower human operators and automated assistants to seamlessly manage and reason about complex production states.
Direct the integration of coordination stacks within the broader deployment and multi-region landscape.
Refine service discovery and substrate architecture to accelerate regional expansion while eliminating bespoke toil and architectural circularity.
Leverage AI to catalyze infrastructure design and analytical phases, utilizing assistant-enabled workflows to synthesize partner requirements into executable roadmaps.
Maintain absolute accountability through rigorous data validation, metric-driven reviews, and comprehensive peer verification.

Requirements

Decade-plus mastery in high-scale infrastructure and distributed environments, with a track record of architecting or managing business-critical backend substrates in production settings.
Proven expertise in orchestrating cross-functional technical strategies for control-plane systems (e.g., experiments, feature flags, or ML config), unifying disparate teams around standardized and safe rollout methodologies.
Advanced proficiency in distributed coordination and substrate design—capable of navigating complex consistency models, failure domains, and the engineering of resilient, high-leverage abstractions.
Experience aligning configuration surfaces with deployment pipelines and orchestration frameworks (e.g., IaC or CI/CD), with a focus on mitigating architectural circularity and reducing service owner toil.
History of elevating senior engineering talent while steering parallel workstreams, synthesizing loosely coupled initiatives into a unified technical vision and executable roadmap.
Ability to catalyze execution via AI-enabled workflows (e.g., design synthesis, analytical phases, or documentation) while ensuring rigorous accountability through data validation, peer review, and metric-driven verification.
Extreme ownership and professional integrity: dedicated to safeguarding data, maintaining human-in-the-loop oversight for automated outputs, and taking full responsibility for long-term architectural outcomes.
US based applicants only.

Skills

AI-enabled workflows
Data validation
Metric-driven reviews
Peer verification
Distributed coordination
Substrate design
Consistency models
Failure domains
Deployment pipelines
Orchestration frameworks
IaC
CI/CD

Location

Remote

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Staff
IC17

Education Level

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Salary/Compensations

$208,592—$429,454 USD

Benefits

Equity

About the Company

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime.
At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work.
Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that.
To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think.
You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Equal Opportunity

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.