Senior Software Engineer, Pinterest
Security Privacy
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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
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with increasing responsibility
- 1+ years of hands-on experience in privacy and security engineering, or equivalent experience tackling privacy-related challenges
- Proficiency in a dynamic programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Kotlin, or Swift), with an ability to write clean, maintainable, and secure code
- Experience tackling technical challenges, with a focus on learning from and adapting to new and ambiguous environments
- Familiarity with privacy frameworks and ability to integrate privacy requirements into system design and architecture
- Experience with secure data handling, logging, monitoring, and incident response to identify and mitigate potential risks
- Collaborative mindset and leadership skills, with ability to mentor team members, foster cross-functional relationships, and contribute to team goals
- Enthusiasm for tackling complex privacy and security challenges with a strong commitment to creating impactful, user-centric solutions
- Nice to have: familiarity with or interest in mobile development or mobile security, especially in privacy-conscious design for Android or iOS platforms
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience. If you gained experience through different routes (e.g., bootcamps, self-taught programming), you’re welcome to apply
What the job involves
- Pinterest’s Security Privacy team is seeking a Sr Software Engineer to help architect and implement solutions that protect millions of users by building secure systems across backend and client platforms
- You’ll focus on designing and delivering privacy-first infrastructure and services that ensure compliance, scalability, and trust, with upcoming opportunities to collaborate on mobile privacy initiatives that extend these protections to our mobile apps
- The ideal candidate brings strong software development experience, expertise in privacy regulations, and the ability to mentor and lead cross-functional initiatives
- While mobile development experience is not required, familiarity with or interest in mobile security will be a strong advantage as we continue to expand our privacy focus across all surfaces
- Design and implement scalable solutions that ensure privacy compliance and protect sensitive user data, including data handling and deletion processes
- Write, review, and maintain code that is well-documented, thoroughly tested, and compliant with security and privacy standards
- Monitor, identify, and address potential privacy vulnerabilities, leading root cause analysis and applying lessons learned to strengthen systems
- Work closely with compliance teams, engineers, and stakeholders to align on goals, define success metrics, and implement best practices for security and privacy
- Implement privacy and security frameworks to Pinterest’s mobile surfaces
- Drive efforts to resolve and prevent privacy-related incidents, ensuring effective remediation and long-term prevention strategies
- Conduct training sessions, mentor team members, and champion a culture of privacy and security across Pinterest
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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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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
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