2 months ago
Base Salary
$177k - $365k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build edge systems combining in-house implementations, open-source software, and multiple CDN and DNS providers.
- Lead automation traffic management for bots and crawlers at scale.
- Design and implement Envoy request-processing logic for routing, traffic classification, and enforcement.
- Write, review, and maintain code in C++, Golang, and Python.
- Collaborate with CDN vendors and internal platform teams on integration points.
- Gather internal user pain points and translate them into a prioritized rate-limiting roadmap.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and coaching.
- Use AI for prototyping, analysis, and operational tasks while verifying production readiness.
- Participate in on-call, incident response, post-mortems, and reliability improvements for edge systems.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering, focused on traffic management systems such as CDN, HTTP gateways, service mesh, or load balancing.
- Experience with bot detection, scraping prevention, or automation traffic management is preferred.
- Proficiency in C++, Golang, or Python, with experience developing L7 HTTP proxies such as Envoy, Nginx, Varnish, or Traefik.
- Deep understanding of network protocols across L3-L7 and hands-on experience debugging production networking issues at scale.
- Experience gathering internal-user requirements, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and delivering technical plans.
- Experience designing distributed systems architectures and driving them from proposal through proof of concept to production.
- Experience using AI to accelerate engineering workflows while validating correctness and quality.
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Remote-position flexibility with in-office collaboration required only 1-2 times every 6 months; the role can be situated anywhere in the country.
- No relocation assistance is provided.
- The position is eligible for equity.
- Pinterest provides benefits and an equitable, inclusive workplace.
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.