Security Software Engineer, Pinterest
Security Operations
$123.7-254.7k
+ 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
$123.7-254.7k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in cloud, security, and/or software engineering including building and operating production services, automations or internal tools
- Experience in cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code, especially in environments such as AWS and Terraform
- Experience in writing and reviewing production-quality code, debugging issues and delivering reliable solutions with clear documentation
- Experience in operational security, platform security or security engineering work such as access management, cloud security, service hardening or security tooling
- Experience working independently on projects with clear goals, breaking work into milestones and communicating progress and tradeoffs to teammates and stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day engineering work, while maintaining strong judgment and verification practices
- Strong track record of critically evaluating AI-assisted output through testing, validation, source-checking or peer review before shipping work
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Security Software Engineer to join our Security Operations team. In this role, you’ll build and improve the systems, automation and operational workflows that help keep Pinterest secure day to day
- You’ll work across security and engineering to deliver reliable, production-ready solutions, build secure paved paths and improve how sensitive infrastructure and resources are managed across Pinterest
- This role offers broad exposure across cloud security, access management, automation and secure infrastructure, with opportunities to partner with many teams and work on a wide range of technical problems
- Build, maintain and improve security tooling, automations and services that support Security Operations
- Write production-ready code, infrastructure-as-code and technical documentation with a high bar for quality and reliability
- Improve security workflows such as access controls, cloud guardrails, service hardening and inbound security requests
- Partner with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to identify gaps and deliver practical security solutions
- Troubleshoot production issues, improve runbooks and help maintain healthy, reliable systems
- Contribute to technical designs, project plans and retrospectives, while clearly communicating progress, risks and blockers
- Use AI to speed up repeatable engineering work such as prototyping, documentation and code improvements, while validating quality and correctness
- Use AI to summarize operational signals, surface patterns and reduce manual toil, while protecting sensitive data and maintaining accountability for final outputs
Application process
- 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
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.
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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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