4 hours ago
Base Salary
$177k - $365k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize Pinterest’s exabyte-scale data lake storage platform.
- Lead complex technical projects for data lake storage and metadata management from architecture through execution.
- Collaborate with data, ML/AI, analytics, and infrastructure teams to develop storage and metadata technologies.
- Build high-throughput data access, schema evolution, and large-scale column backfill capabilities for ML/AI workloads.
- Shape the long-term technical direction of scalable, reliable, and efficient big data storage systems.
- Engage with and contribute to open source communities such as Apache Iceberg, Spark, and Flink.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience designing and building large-scale production distributed systems.
- Strong experience with scalable storage, metadata, or data lake infrastructure.
- Experience building storage capabilities for large-scale ML/AI or analytics workloads, including high-throughput data access, schema evolution, and large-scale column backfills.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, data storage systems, and production infrastructure.
- Experience with big data technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Presto/Trino, Hive, or similar systems.
- Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python.
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence architecture across teams.
- Strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- The role can be situated anywhere in the country and requires in-person collaboration 1–2 times per quarter.
- The position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
- The position is eligible for equity.
- Pinterest provides an equitable and inclusive workplace and offers benefits described through its culture and benefits information.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Pinterest
Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It's the visual inspiration platform where more than 600 million monthly active users worldwide come to search, save, and shop the best ideas in the world for all of life’s moments.