Staff Software Engineer, Dublin

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.

Pinterest’s Data Privacy Engineering team builds access control, auditing, and data handling services and solutions used across the company to power Pinterest experiences. We facilitate the governance of the collection and use of hundreds of petabytes of data by dozens of different tech stacks used to analyze data and train models to find inspiring Pins of Pinners. We’re looking for a Staff-level engineer with a proven track record of turning ambiguous challenges into functional and scalable solutions to join our Dublin-based team and build new capabilities and drive future strategy. You’ll grow our mission-critical, high-performance, high-scale services in partnership with industry-leading talent across our stack, while mentoring engineers both on our team and across the company.

What You’ll Do

• Dive deep into our Data Engineering platforms, contribute to their AAA and data-handling code, and become an expert resource in a wide range of systems and development patterns
• Design solutions to enable new platforms and use-cases on those platforms that power Pinterest’s growth.
• Match feature requests to technology and process solutions while identifying technology gaps and issues
• Drive the evolution of our company-wide strategies
• Communicate tactical and strategic vision, and drive its execution across all Pinterest’s engineering teams
  
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Top-tier coding ability in at least one major programming language, and the interest and ability to learn more quickly. You’re an engineering expert that can jump into any tech stack and up-level it.
• Expertise in the use of logging for auditing and remote systems debugging, and strong debugging skills. You solve the problems that others cannot.
• A proven track-record of delivering highly reliable technical solutions that scale
• Experience with, and and ability to apply, design and architecture solutions patterns patterns across frontend, backend, and storage stacks
• Some experience with SQL or SQL-like systems and big-data systems experience to analyze data at scale are a plus
• Bachelor’s degree or higher 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 let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times a month and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
  
  
  

Our Commitment To Inclusion

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.