Staff Software Engineer

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’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.

Pinterest’s Data Privacy Engineering team builds access control, auditing, and data handling services and solutions in use across Pinterest's tech stack. We’re looking for a Staff-level engineer with a proven track record of turning ambiguous challenges into functional, scalable, solutions to join our Dublin-based team and help us drive our next-generation capabilities and strategy. You’ll help grow and expand our high-performance, high-scale services which are critical components of most of Pinterest’s major systems in partnership with industry-leading talent across our stack, while mentoring a wide diversity of engineers.

What you’ll do:

• Dive deep into our Data Engineer platforms, contribute to their code and become an expert resource in a wide range of systems and development patterns
• Field open-ended feature and help requests, design review requests, and tough problems from engineers throughout Pinterest
• Match requests to technology and process solutions and identify technology gaps and issues
• Design solutions that address problems at both current and future scale
• Drive the evolution of our company-wide strategies
• Communicate tactical and strategic vision, and drive execution across all Pinterest’s engineering teams

What we’re looking for:

• Top-tier coding ability in at least one major programming language, and the interest and ability to learn more quickly
• The ability to quickly move across tech stacks to commit and review code changes
• Expertise in the use of logging for auditing and remote systems debugging, and strong debugging skills
• Proven track-record of delivering highly reliable technical solutions that scale
• Experience with, and and ability to apply, design and architecture solutions patterns patterns across frontend, backend, and storage stacks
• Some experience with SQL or SQL-like systems and big-data systems experience are a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times a month and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

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Our Commitment to Inclusion:

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.