Security Software Engineer, Pinterest

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of software development experience
• Experienced in developing features end to end, with preferred experience developing them in distributed systems
• Experience with critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review)
• Demonstrated ability to prototype and use AI tooling to improve reliability and quality of day-to-day workflow and system performance
• High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables

Desirable

• The Internal Identity & Access Management (I2AM) team is responsible for critical production infrastructure that provides a foundational notion of Identity and strong authentication and authorization controls across Pinterest
• Our backend is primarily written in Golang, Python with some C++ while our frontend tools are written in React and TypeScript
• We’re looking for a software engineer who will help us build robust tooling to define and evaluate access controls across production infrastructure
• A security background is not necessary but ideal candidates will have familiarity with the problems or related spaces, such as Infrastructure or Identity
• Contribute to the technical roadmap for identity and authorization controls for users, services and AI Agents
• Design, implement, and maintain mission-critical features that will help us deliver robust IAM infrastructure and libraries to our customers
• Leverage Agentic AI to improve systems and least privilege, while applying judgment and verification to ensure correctness and quality. Improve code quality and system performance using AI Coding Agents
• As member of the Infrastructure Security team, build performant and resilient AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Auditing) platform controls into various high-traffic services including our AI Agents, online/offline data platforms, databases, service mesh. (Envoy) and other critical infrastructure components