Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest

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SQL
Senior and Expert level
Dublin

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Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

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Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
SQL
Senior and Expert level
Dublin

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Company mission

To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

Role

Who you are

  • Top-tier coding ability in at least one major programming language, and the interest and ability to learn more quickly
  • The ability to quickly move across tech stacks to commit and review code changes
  • Expertise in the use of logging for auditing and remote systems debugging, and strong debugging skills
  • 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 are a plus
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

What the job involves

  • Pinterest’s Data Privacy Engineering team builds access control, auditing, and data handling services and solutions in use across Pinterests’s tech stack
  • We’re looking for a Staff-level engineer with a proven track record of turning ambiguous challenges into functional, scalable, solutions to join our Dublin-based team and help us drive our next-generation capabilities and strategy
  • You’ll help grow and expand our high-performance, high-scale services which are critical components of most of Pinterest’s major systems in partnership with industry-leading talent across our stack, while mentoring a wide diversity of engineers
  • Dive deep into our Data Engineer platforms, contribute to their code and become an expert resource in a wide range of systems and development patterns
  • Field open-ended feature and help requests, design review requests, and tough problems from engineers throughout Pinterest
  • Match requests to technology and process solutions and identify technology gaps and issues
  • Design solutions that address problems at both current and future scale
  • Drive the evolution of our company-wide strategies
  • Communicate tactical and strategic vision, and drive execution across all Pinterest’s engineering teams

Our take

Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.

Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.

Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.

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Company

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest


People progressing

Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.

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