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Principal Engineer, Big Data Platform

USA🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-02 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead strategy and technical direction for Pinterest's petabyte-scale data infrastructure supporting big data and AI applications.

Role type

Principal Engineer, Big Data Platform

Builds

Compute engines, job management, resource management, scheduling, and remote shuffling frameworks for petabyte-scale datasets.

Domain

Big Data & Machine Learning Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes, Flink, Spark, Presto, Ray, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Java, Go, Scala, Python, AWS

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

Kubernetes, Flink, Spark, Presto, Ray, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Java, Go, Scala, Python, AWS

Responsibilities

Lead strategy and technical direction of data infrastructure; Build and scale data infrastructure frameworks; Partner with internal customers on critical business use cases; Provide company-wide technical leadership on data processing and storage at scale; Contribute to team's technical vision and long-term roadmap.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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