Principal Engineer, Pinterest
Compute Platform
$242.6-499.5k
+ Equity
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$242.6-499.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of relevant industry experience with large scale, production distributed systems
- 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes in production
- Experience working across SWE and SRE or Production Engineering teams to deliver robust production systems
- Experience with running distributed data systems and migrating them to Kubernetes is highly preferred
- Ability to work with cross-functional partners across multiple organizations
- Passion automation, reducing toil, and building proper tooling for getting the job done
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Principal Engineer who can lead and scale the consolidation and modernization of this infrastructure under what we call PinCompte, with an emphasis on some of the largest and most challenging stateful workloads, as well as GPU-heavy AI workloads
- The scale and scope of the effort will require designing and building around Kubernetes and solving its scaling limitations, handling stateful systems and data-intensive workloads, formalizing mechanisms to stack and bin pack workloads, working with multiple internal customers and giving them migration paths, and working through ambiguous and unforeseen situations which arise from workload requirements, production and operability requirements, and unique multi-tenancy challenges
- Solving the challenges of replacing isolated pools of dedicated compute resources with a very large scale shared compute platform, shifting from machine-based designs to container-based designs
- Working with leads across various platforms, especially stateful and data platforms, to build the right features and migration paths that work for them
- Owning and driving up utilization on the shared compute platform by designing and implementing workload stacking, optimizing and bin packing, safe oversubscription, etc
- Work with multiple customers with unique requirements to make sure the platform will address their needs and is not only a viable but a desirable solution for running their workloads
- Leading a group of engineers around design topics, execution, trade offs, migration paths, observability, performance, and operability for the platform
- Evolving the platform towards a multi-cloud abstraction layer to enable running workloads across multiple cloud providers
- Being a role model for setting a high bar for production quality and engineering excellence in delivering a foundational technology which empowers the entire company
- Working closely with partners around capacity planning, cost visibility, fungibility of virtual machine instance types, and efficiency
- Putting special focus on the delivery of GPU resources through the platform, to enable and expedite AI workloads
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 X, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 600M by late 2025.
With this type of success, Pinterest's future feels full of possibility. Recent industry chatter suggests that OpenAI may be eyeing the platform, which has sparked exciement for some and concern for others. While nothing is confirmed, the discussion highlights just how valuable Pinterest has become. Whether through potential partnerships or continues independent growth, Pinterest is very much going to keep on innovation and growing.
Kirsty
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Bill Ready
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinterest in 2022, Bill was the President of Commerce, Payments & Emerging Markets at Google.
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