Senior Software Engineer, Pinterest
Backend Infrastructure
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building CI infrastructure leveraging cloud platforms, experience with AWS a plus
- Experience with building & operating large scale distributed systems, having a good understanding of CI tools & testing frameworks
- Be customer focused and is expected to partner with an infrastructure product manager & engprod leadership team in defining product strategy and outcomes
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience building & operating large scale distributed systems and/or networks. Bonus points if you enjoy deploying and operating large scale workloads on a public cloud footprint
What the job involves
- In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet
- Contribute code to build tools and infrastructure and partner with internal customers to identify common solutions for all of engineering
- Uplevel operational cadence & strategy in helping drive functional and reliability improvements for the platform
- Provide build & integration pipeline support, artifact packaging/publishing, & testing pipeline support leveraging bazel as the common build toolchain
- Participate in on call activities supporting engineering questions against the platform
- Contribute to and lead each step of the product development process, from ideation to implementation to release; from rapidly prototyping, running A/B tests, to architecting and building solutions that can scale to support all of engineering
- Represent the customer and suggest new projects and features to improve the developer experience
- Design, develop, and operate large scale, distributed systems and networks
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.
Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.
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Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Ben Silbermann
(CEO)Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.
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