Technology
StaffSoftwareEngineer,CapacityEngineering
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“Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering at Pinterest. Skills: Capacity Engineering, Distributed systems, Performance optimization. Improve efficiency of shared environments. Improve performance and efficiency of distributed systems”
Industry & Context.
Critical evaluation; Verification of AI-assisted work
In office 1-2 times/quarter, Located anywhere in the country
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Deep understanding of infrastructure capacity, Experience leading efficiency initiatives, Technical and performance engineering skills, Experience building and managing distributed applications, Proficiency in Java, Python and C++, Excellent communication skills, Experience with AWS or similar cloud environments, Demonstrated ability to use AI
Nice to Have
Hands-on experience with large, cloud-native multi-tenant platforms
What You'll Do.
Improve efficiency of shared environments
Improve performance and efficiency of distributed systems
Build and mature profiling capabilities
Build and mature optimization capabilities
Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering teams
Collaborate with SRE teams
Leverage AI to scale impact
Accelerate performance investigations
Build tooling for self-serve insights
Build agents for self-serve recommendations
Iterate on optimization approaches
Validate impact with experiments
Validate impact with production guardrails
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Infrastructure Engineering teams; SRE teams
Communication Scope
Communicating complex technical issues
Full Job Description
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. 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. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. 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. This role is highly impactful, as efficiency is an ongoing strategic priority for Pinterest. The role has direct visibility across Pinterest Engineering and with Engineering and company leadership. The team is looking for a candidate with a strong background in implementing performance and efficiency projects on large scale distributed systems. What you’ll do 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 t
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