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Staff Software Engineer, Workflow Platform

Palo Alto💼 Full-time💰 $177,185–$177,185🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, implement, optimize, and operate Pinterest's data control plane (Workflow platform, Data context platform) to power relevance for app feeds and search.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure Platform

Builds

Scalable, reliable, and modernized data control planes (Airflow, Datahub, Jupyter infrastructure) for data scientists, ML engineers, and analysts.

Domain

Data Engineering / ML Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

distributed systems design, infrastructure platform design, Python, Java, technical leadership, open source contribution

Preferred skills

AI-native architecture, data governance, data context platform design

Technologies

Apache Airflow, Datahub, Jupyter notebook

Responsibilities

Design and operate the data control plane, lead complex technical projects from architecture to execution, strengthen reliability and performance, shape long-term technical direction, lead product direction to be AI native, contribute to open source communities.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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