15 days ago
Base Salary
$177k - $365k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the observability roadmap as a product focused on engineering team needs and measurable impact.
- Architect, build, and scale distributed observability infrastructure for metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry.
- Build high-performance data pipelines and storage for real-time and historical analysis.
- Establish observability standards and patterns across the organization.
- Mentor engineers, lead architectural reviews, and influence technical decisions across teams.
- Collaborate with SRE, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and other teams to improve developer productivity and system reliability.
- Evaluate and adopt new observability tools and techniques.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong data engineering experience with data pipelines, time-series databases, columnar storage, stream processing, and large-scale data modeling.
- Hands-on experience with metrics, logging, tracing, profiling, and modern observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Expert-level production coding ability in Java, Python, Go, or Scala.
- Experience building observability platforms from the ground up or significantly scaling existing solutions.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and technologies, including Kubernetes and service mesh technologies.
- Experience driving adoption of internal platforms through documentation, user experience, and developer advocacy.
- Experience applying machine learning or anomaly detection to observability use cases.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-influence skills.
- Contributions to open-source observability projects are a plus.
Benefits
- Remote work within the country with in-office collaboration required 1–2 times per quarter.
- The position is eligible for equity.
- The position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Pinterest
Pinterest builds a visual discovery and bookmarking platform where people search, save, and shop ideas across home, fashion, food, and more. The company monetizes primarily through advertising and shopping integrations, using visual search and recommendation systems to connect users and merchants. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Pinterest is a public company on the NYSE (PINS) with around 482 million monthly users worldwide.