Staff Software Engineer, Observability
Core
Design and build world-class observability infrastructure and tools to provide visibility into Pinterest's large-scale distributed systems, empowering thousands of engineers to debug and optimize services.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Observability)
Builds
Distributed observability infrastructure (metrics, logs, traces), high-performance data pipelines, and storage for real-time telemetry analysis.
Domain
Internet / Distributed Systems / Observability
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems design, Data engineering, Observability domain knowledge, Programming (Java/Python/Go/Scala), Systems thinking, Cloud-native architectures
Preferred skills
Machine learning/anomaly detection for observability, Open-source contributions, Product mindset
Technologies
Kafka, Flink, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, Service mesh
Responsibilities
Define and execute the observability roadmap, Architect and scale distributed observability infrastructure, Build high-performance data pipelines, Establish observability standards and patterns, Mentor engineers and lead architectural reviews, Partner with SRE and Product Engineering teams
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
