# Staff Software Engineer, Service Communications

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $177,185-$364,795 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Service Communications team at Pinterest manages high-layer networking systems for reliable, secure, and performant service-to-service interactions. We're looking for a Staff Engineer to lead technical strategy across identity, traffic optimization, and platform scaling.

Responsibilities:

- Architect and deploy advanced service mesh features using Envoy proxy.

- Lead organization-wide adoption of service identity and mTLS for critical AAA security requirements.

- Design traffic optimization primitives to reduce data transfer costs.

- Maintain and modernize service framework libraries in Java, Python, and C++.

- Collaborate with service owners to drive adoption and refine infrastructure requirements.

- Partner with infrastructure peers on multi-region and multi-cloud strategies.

- Use AI to accelerate analysis and iteration.

- Join the team on-call rotation for incident response and post-mortems.

Requirements:

- 6+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience.

- Deep technical expertise in service mesh technologies like Envoy or Istio.

- Proficiency in multiple languages (Java, Python, C++).

- Strong understanding of service security, including mTLS adoption and identity management.

- Proven ability to design highly available and efficient distributed systems.

- Demonstrated experience driving complex platform capabilities across engineering teams.

- Experience using AI to accelerate engineering workflows.

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Benefits:

- Salary range: $177,185-$364,795 USD

- Equity eligibility

- Flexible working model (PinFlex)

- Opportunity to work remotely or in-office

## Skills

### Required
- Envoy
- service mesh
- Java
- Python
- C++
- mTLS
- identity management
- distributed systems
- AI

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