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Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Big Data Platform

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead strategy and technical direction for Pinterest's data infrastructure powering mission-critical big data and AI applications.

Role type

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Big Data Platform)

Builds

Data infrastructure frameworks and systems processing petabytes-scale datasets (compute engines, job/resource management, scheduling, remote shuffling)

Domain

Big Data & AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Big data/ML technologies (Flink, Spark, Presto, Ray, PyTorch/TensorFlow), Kubernetes, AWS, Java/Go/Scala/Python, scalable system design

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Lead strategy and technical direction of data infrastructure; Build and scale data infra frameworks for petabyte-scale datasets; Work with internal customers on critical business use cases; Provide thought leadership on data processing and storage at scale; Contribute to team's technical vision and long-term roadmap

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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