About Pinterest:  

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.

Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more. 

The mission of the Metrics Quality team is to guarantee the accuracy of client-side logging and collaborate with various teams to ensure the overall accuracy of our metrics. Team members will investigate logging anomalies and work closely with product teams to verify metrics accuracy. They will also develop tools that enable the entire company to have confidence in our data. This role is crucial as it supports the company in making informed decisions based on accurate data and enhances the effectiveness of our machine learning capabilities.

 

What you’ll do:

• Create tooling and education allowing for client engineers to instrument metric logging effectively.
• Work with data engineers to create, manage, and investigate early metric anomaly alerts.
• Certify company critical metrics are accurate and ensure they will remain accurate with a variety of testing.
• Creating new accurate metrics to allow a deeper understanding of the user’s behavior and needs.

 

What we’re looking for:

• 2+ years of experience working in Android development.
• Strong experience in writing reliable, maintainable, and impactful code that will be used by many other engineers.
• Enthusiasm for collaborating with a diverse array of partners, including product managers and engineers across a variety of platforms and teams, data engineers, release services, and analysts.
• Enthusiasm for “behind the scenes” work that is a high priority for Pinterest, but will not be seen by users.
• Strong communication skills and confidence working with developers in a different time zone (this team will frequently work with SF engineers).
• Experience with relational databases and query languages.
• Nice to have: Experience maintaining and improving UI tests.
• Nice to have: Experience building ways to measure user behavior on Android applications.
• Nice to have: Experience evaluating user metrics to understand app usage.
• Nice to have: Experience working with developers as customers to address the needs of engineers.

 

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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Our Commitment to Diversity:

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 accessibility@pinterest.com for support.