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Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
The Batch Processing Platform Team provides Hadoop & Spark platforms as services to Pinterest engineering.
We’re looking for staff or senior staff software engineers to help us build and lead the next generation of batch processing platform and infrastructure at Pinterest. You’ll be working on some of the most exciting big data open source technologies (Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.), at the scale of hundreds of petabytes of data to help Pinners discover and do what they love.
- Lead the strategy and technical direction of Pinterest’s Spark platform
- Improve and customize the internals of open source Spark to meet our challenges at scale and actively participate in open source community
- Build and scale batch processing frameworks and infrastructure to process petabytes-scale datasets
- Work with internal customers on critical business use cases that rely on batch processing
- Provide thought leadership to the entire company on how data should be processed and stored more reliably, quickly and efficiently at scale
- Contribute to the team’s technical vision and long-term roadmap
- 8+years of industry experience with a proven track record of technical excellence
- 5+ years of experience of building and support large scalable big data infrastructure/platform
- 2+ years of experiences in contributing to open-source Spark
- Deep knowledge of big data technologies (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Parquet/ORC, Flink)
- Experience in leading cross-team engineering efforts
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Java, Scala, Python)
- Experiences in Kubernetes and AWS technologies
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
US based applicants only
$175,488—$360,985 USD
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify [email protected] for support.
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Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It’s the biggest dataset of ideas ever assembled, with over 100 billion recipes, home hacks, style inspiration and other ideas to try. More than 250 million people around the world use Pinterest to dream about, plan and prepare for things they want to do in life.
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