Senior Data Scientist, Pinterest
Infrastructure
$139.8-287.7k
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Posted today
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Posted today
$139.8-287.7k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems with large-scale data
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.”
- Strong SQL and analytical programming skills, with experience working through messy, imperfect data and building reliable metrics and datasets
- Experience partnering on or contributing to production-ready data pipelines, measurement systems, or foundational data work that improves data quality and usability
- Solid foundation in experimentation and measurement, with the ability to design analyses, interpret results rigorously, and partner effectively with engineers and other cross-functional stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous problems into clear analytical workstreams and actionable recommendations
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings clearly to engineering, product, and platform stakeholders
- Ability to operate independently, prioritize across both longer-term projects and fast-turn inbound requests, and drive work forward in a dynamic environment
- Curiosity and a builder mindset, with excitement for improving messy systems and creating more scalable, trustworthy measurement foundations
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Data Scientist to join our Infrastructure Data Science team. In this role, you’ll partner with engineering and cross-functional teams to make Pinterest’s infrastructure more measurable, intelligible, and actionable. Depending on the area, your work may span app performance, shopping infrastructure, metrics quality, infrastructure governance, or site reliability
- You’ll help build the data foundations, measurement systems, and analytical frameworks that enable Pinterest to optimize core technical systems and make better product and infrastructure decisions
- In this role, you will partner closely with engineering and cross-functional teams to improve how Pinterest measures, understands, and optimizes its infrastructure:
- Partner with engineering teams to define, measure, and improve the health, quality, and efficiency of Pinterest’s infrastructure systems
- Build and refine metrics, dashboards, and analytical frameworks that make complex technical systems more understandable and actionable
- Strengthen data foundations by improving metric definitions, auditing data quality, and contributing to pipeline and measurement improvements where needed
- Design and analyze experiments, investigations, and deep dives to quantify the impact of infrastructure changes on user experience, reliability, and business outcomes
- Translate ambiguous technical problems into clear analyses and actionable recommendations for engineering and platform partners
- Support high-priority investigations and decision-making related to infrastructure performance, reliability, cost, and measurement quality
- Identify opportunities to improve how Pinterest measures and optimizes infrastructure across a range of domains, such as performance, shopping infrastructure, governance, metrics quality, and site reliability
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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