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Staff Software Engineer, Service Configuration Deployments

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US · Remote

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About Pinterest

Discover recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas to try. Backed by Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.

About the role

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What they're looking for

  • Minimum 10 years experience in high-scale infrastructure and distributed environments, with a track record of architecting or managing business-critical backend substrates in production settings
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
More about this role

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 .

Pinterest’s Service Configuration Deployment team builds the platforms, APIs,...

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