Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering. The team is responsible for efficiently managing one of the largest-scale cloud-native infrastructures in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Improve the efficiency of large scale shared environments like Kubernetes
• Improve the performance and efficiency of large scale distributed systems that drive Pinterest systems
• Build, develop, and mature profiling and optimization capabilities for Pinterest scale
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and SRE teams to deliver highly available, resilient, secure, and efficient foundations for Pinterest's tech stack
• Leverage AI to scale the impact of yourself and the team, including accelerating performance investigations, building tooling and agents, and iterating faster on optimization approaches

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent experience
• Deep understanding of infrastructure capacity and performance
• Experience leading efficiency initiatives at scale on Kubernetes or other large scale shared infrastructure
• Strong technical and performance engineering skills
• Experience building and managing highly available distributed applications at scale
• Proficiency in software development languages such as Java, Python, and C++
• Excellent skills in communicating complex technical issues
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud environments
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow
• Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work

Benefits:

• Base salary range: $177,185-$364,795 USD
• Equity eligibility
• Flexible working model

Note: This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/month.