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. 

Pinterest’s Configuration Management Engineering team is seeking a staff software engineer to design and run our large-scale configuration systems. You’ll design, build, and maintain our service configuration management systems, service mesh control plane, service discovery, zookeeper, and other mission-critical infrastructure which delivers configuration updates safely and rapidly to all Pinterest machines.

What you’ll do:

• Develop platform features using workflow orchestration systems like Temporal.
• Develop end-to-end systems for dynamically injecting configuration into running services which are implemented in multiple languages.
• Establish best practices for configuration deployment validation.
• Design and implement service discovery in a hybrid (VMs and Pods) environment.
• Design, build and maintain large-scale distributed systems.
• Support and enhance the feature flag system for Pinterest.
• Support the in-house control plane for distributing traffic configuration.
• Contribute to open source projects.
• Evaluate open source and vendor solutions and be involved in the build vs buy decision-making process.

What we’re looking for:

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on building and maintaining infrastructure and/or distributed systems.
• Technical leadership experience, devising multi-quarter technical strategies and driving them to success.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and a strong understanding of best practices in software development.
• Ability to drive cross-team projects; Ability to understand our internal customers (software engineers), their common usage patterns and pain points.
• Experience with Golang and Envoy Proxy is a plus.
• Bonus points for experience developing configuration management systems like Meta’s Configerator, Uber’s Flipr, CUE, Puppet’s Hiera, Netflix’s Eureka, Hashicorp’s Consul.

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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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.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

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, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law. 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.