Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform
Job Description
About Pinterest: 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鈥檙e 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鈥檚 unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It鈥檚 Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we鈥檙e looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we鈥檒l 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 . Pinterest operates at a massive scale, serving 500+ million users globally with billions of requests daily. Our Cloud Platform team owns the foundational infrastructure technology that powers Pinterest's entire ecosystem. We're building PinCompute, our next-generation Kubernetes-based platform that will eventually run all of Pinterest's workloads and services. This platform represents a multi-year transformation of how we build, deploy, and operate services at Pinterest scale. We're looking for an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy and execution of our cloud infrastructure initiatives. You'll shape how Pinterest engineers build and deploy services, driving innovation in areas like container orchestration, service mesh, developer experience, and cloud-native architectures at Internet scale. What you'll do Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy for Pinterest's Cloud Infrastructure platform, focusing on our Kubernetes-based PinCompute platform that hosts thousands of services and petabytes of data. Lead the design and implementation of complex, cross-team infrastructure initiatives including service mesh adoption, multi-region architectures, and developer platform capabilities Partner with teams across Pinterest to modernize our infrastructure stack, improving developer velocity while reducing operational complexity and costs Architect solutions for critical infrastructure challenges including auto-scaling, resource optimization, traffic management, and service reliability at Pinterest scale
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