Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering who will play a critical role in optimizing one of the largest-scale cloud-native infrastructures in the world. With the Capacity Engineering team, you will provide technical leadership to ensure that Pinterest derives maximum value from its Infrastructure investments while reducing overhead and inefficiencies.

This role is highly impactful, as capacity optimization is an ongoing strategic priority for Pinterest. The role has direct visibility across Pinterest Engineering and with Engineering and company leadership

What you’ll do

• Contribute to all aspects of Capacity Engineering at Pinterest, including tooling, visibility, optimization, and ongoing capacity management, leveraging your extensive experience in the field.
• Build develop and mature profiling and optimization capabilities at Pinterest, ensuring that Pinterest Infrastructure maximizes value and reduces inefficiencies and overhead
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and SRE teams in their mission to deliver highly available, resilient, secure and efficient foundations for Pinterest’s tech stack
• Collaborate across Pinterest Engineering by creating and delivering tools and best practices to right-size systems capacity, optimize performance and reduce overhead while assuring high availability

What we’re looking for:

• Extensive hands-on experience working with large-scale cloud infrastructure
• Strong technical skills and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders on complex and ambiguous technical challenges
• Experience building and managing highly available distributed applications at scale
• Proficiency in software development languages such as Java, Python and C++
• Excellent skills in communicating complex technical issues
• Bonus points for the following:
• Hands-on experience with large, cloud-native multi-tenant platforms at Internet scale
• Experience with AWS instances and Kubernetes environments
• Deep understanding of infrastructure capacity, utilization, resilience, and governance
• Practical experience building or working with large observability platforms, systems, and tools

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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