Staff Software Engineer, Workflow Platform
Design and operate Pinterest's data control plane while leading technical projects and collaborating across teams.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design and implement the Workflow platform
- Collaborate with stakeholders to unlock innovations
- Lead complex technical projects
- Strengthen reliability and performance
- Engage with open source communities
Must have
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Strong experience designing and maintaining infrastructure platforms
- Proficiency in programming languages like Python or Java
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
Practical constraints
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance
- In-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact.
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- No sponsorship (stated in posting)
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Staff Software Engineer for the Workflow Platform at Pinterest is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing the data control plane that supports various data-driven initiatives. This role requires expertise in building large-scale distributed systems, with proficiency in programming languages like Python or Java being essential. Ideal candidates will have over a decade of experience and a strong background in infrastructure platforms, along with proven leadership skills in technical projects. The position plays a crucial role in enhancing the reliability and performance of Pinterest's data ecosystem.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday on Joblaze — tracked directly from Pinterest's career page.
- Pinterest has 195 other open roles including Lead Ads Product Marketing Manager, Sr. Programmatic Tech Operations Specialist , Sr. Client Account Manager, Home.
- 6527 active Python roles on Joblaze right now.
- 1596 active Java roles on Joblaze right now.
- 18 active Apache Airflow roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Data Engineering roles (median ~$180,656).
- Pays more than 64% of the 3228 salaried Python roles we track (median $160,000). See Python salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, Workflow Platform role remote?
- It's hybrid — Pinterest expects some on-site time in Palo Alto, CA, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Pinterest lists $177,185–$364,795 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Workflow Platform role.
- Where is the role based?
- Pinterest is hiring for this position in Palo Alto, CA, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Apache Airflow, Datahub, Java, Jupyter, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Pinterest targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Workflow Platform role at Pinterest.
From the original posting
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 app provides value to users by providing them inspiring items (pins), either by searching or by browsing. Pinterest is able to provide inspiring / relevant items to users by analyzing huge amounts of data, producing critical data assets, ML data, ML model training to power the business.
The Workflow platform team is in the center of making this happen by being the main control plane of the Data eco-system. There are three main products team own: 1. Workflow platform (Opensource: Airflow): Empower engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, etc to build pipelines, build ML features, train ML models, etc to build core dataset, to build business critical metrics, to power relevance of Pinterest apps feed & search. It is a critical platform not only in Data engineering but also to Pinterest overall. 2. Data catalogue/governance/context platform. (Opensource: Datahub) Provide data governance, data discovery and recently being the center of data context platform powering AI agents. 3. Jupyter notebook infrastructure: Power data scientists & engineers to interactively analyze data and schedule business critical reports used by thousands of users.
What you’ll do:
- Design, implement, optimize, and operate Pinterest’s data control plane – Workflow platform, Data context platform.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and partner teams across the organization to design technologies that unlock innovations.
- Lead complex technical projects and initiatives driving them from architecture through execution.
- Lead the team to strengthen reliability and performance.
- Shape the long-term technical direction for scalable, reliable, and modernized data control planes.
- Lead the team’s product direction to be AI native.
- Engage with and contribute to open source communities such as Apache Airflow, Datahub, and Jupyter notebook to solve Pinterest’s challenges.
What we’re looking for:
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience designing, building, operating large-scale production distributed systems.
- Strong experience designing and maintaining infrastructure platforms.
- Proficiency in programming languages like Python or Java.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence architecture across teams.
- Strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a drive for technical excellence and innovation.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
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