Staff Software Engineer, Observability
AI summary of the role
Staff Software Engineer on Pinterest's Observability team, responsible for designing and building infrastructure and tools that provide visibility into Pinterest's large-scale distributed systems.
What you’ll do
- Define and execute the observability roadmap, treating it as a product
- Architect, build, and scale distributed observability infrastructure (metrics, logs, traces) to handle massive volumes across Pinterest's distributed systems
- Build high-performance data pipelines and storage for real-time and historical telemetry analysis at Pinterest scale
- Establish observability standards and patterns across the organization
What you’ll bring
- 7+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Expert-level coding skills in Java, Python, Go, or Scala
- Hands-on experience with modern observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Strong background in building data pipelines, time-series databases, stream processing (Kafka, Flink)
Technologies
OpenTelemetry · Prometheus · Grafana · Kafka · Flink · Kubernetes · service mesh · Java · Python · Go · Scala
About Pinterest
Visual discovery and shopping platform that converts high-intent planning behavior into personalized recommendations, commerce journeys, and performance advertising for brands.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:
our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. We're seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to join our Observability team at Pinterest. This role combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems and data engineering with a product-oriented mindset to build world-class observability solutions that empower our engineering organization. As a Staff Engineer on the Observability team, you'll be responsible for designing and building the infrastructure and tools that provide visibility into Pinterest's large-scale distributed systems, helping thousands of engineers understand, debug, and optimize their services. What you'll do: Define and execute the observability roadmap,How jobs are selected
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