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Principal Engineer, Big Data Platform

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $242,634–$242,634🗓 2026-09-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the strategy and technical direction of Pinterest's data infrastructure for big data and AI applications, building and scaling frameworks to process petabytes-scale datasets.

Role type

Principal Engineer, Big Data Platform

Builds

Compute engines, job management, resource management, scheduling, and remote shuffling systems for exabyte-scale data.

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, distributed systems architecture

Preferred skills

Thought leadership, cross-functional collaboration, navigating ambiguity

Technologies

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

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

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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