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About the Role

Pinterest is seeking a talented individual to lead complex technical projects, focusing on identifying and triaging risks on the platform. This role involves designing and implementing scalable services, driving architectural improvements, and mentoring junior engineers to ensure robust quality and reliability frameworks across teams.

Responsibilities

Lead complex technical projects involving multiple cross-functional stakeholders to proactively and automatically identify and triage risks on the Pinterest platform.
Design and drive adoption of robust quality and reliability frameworks across teams.
Design and implement scalable, maintainable services to provide automated, self-service, and reliable platforms that empower various stakeholders to identify and quantify risks at scale.
Drive architectural improvements and technical debt reduction of the team’s system by defining robust software engineering approaches for measurement, system reliability, and reproducibility.
Mentor junior engineers and partners across teams to scale adoption of engineering best practices, identify process gaps, and refine team workflows.
Independently and proactively triage and lead resolutions of complex production issues related to automated reporting, measurement methodologies, and proactive risk engineering.

Requirements

Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Data Science, Analytics, Computer Science, or closely related quantitative discipline.
Two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in a software engineer or in data analytical/ data science-related position.

Skills

Python: Developing reliable, maintainable applications and data workflows using Python, including scripting, API development, automation, data processing, testing, debugging, and performance optimization.
SQL: Querying, analyzing, and transforming large datasets using efficient SQL, including complex joins, aggregations, window functions, data modeling, query optimization, and validation of business metrics.
Spark: Building and maintaining distributed data-processing pipelines with Spark, including batch and streaming workloads, ETL transformations, performance tuning, partitioning strategies, and scalable processing of high-volume datasets.
Jupyter Notebook: Conducting exploratory data analysis, prototyping models and algorithms, documenting technical findings, visualizing results, and creating reproducible analyses using Jupyter notebooks.
Git: Managing source code through Git-based version control, including branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, conflict resolution, release management, and collaborative development workflows.
Software Engineering: Designing, developing, testing, deploying, and operating production-quality software, with emphasis on clean architecture, reliability, observability, security, scalability, and maintainability.
System Design: Designing large-scale distributed systems by defining requirements, APIs, data models, service boundaries, storage solutions, reliability mechanisms, performance targets, and trade-offs for systems serving high-volume user traffic.
Agentic Workflow Construction: Designing and implementing AI-driven workflows that use autonomous agents to plan, reason, retrieve information, invoke tools, coordinate multi-step tasks, handle exceptions, and deliver reliable outcomes with appropriate evaluation, guardrails, and human oversight.

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time
Telecommuting

Experience Level

2 years of experience

Education Level

Master's degree

Salary/Compensations

$203,000.00 to $254,667.00 per annum

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.

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.
See also Know Your Rights and Pinterest Policy for more information regarding U.S. roles.
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