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 Data Privacy Engineering team builds access control, auditing, and data handling services and solutions in use across Pinterests’s tech stack.  We’re looking for a Staff-level engineer with a proven track record of turning ambiguous challenges into functional, scalable, solutions to join our Dublin-based team and help us drive our next-generation capabilities and strategy.  You’ll help grow and expand our high-performance, high-scale services which are critical components of most of Pinterest’s major systems in partnership with industry-leading talent across our stack, while mentoring a wide diversity of engineers.  

What you’ll do:

• Dive deep into our Data Engineer platforms, contribute to their code and become an expert resource in a wide range of systems and development patterns
• Field open-ended feature and help requests, design review requests, and tough problems from engineers throughout Pinterest
• Match requests to technology and process solutions and identify technology gaps and issues
• Design solutions that address problems at both current and future scale
• Drive the evolution of our company-wide strategies
• Communicate tactical and strategic vision, and drive execution across all Pinterest’s engineering teams

What we’re looking for:

• Top-tier coding ability in at least one major programming language, and the interest and ability to learn more quickly
• The ability to quickly move across tech stacks to commit and review code changes
• Expertise in the use of logging for auditing and remote systems debugging, and strong debugging skills
• Proven track-record of delivering highly reliable technical solutions that scale
• Experience with, and and ability to apply, design and architecture solutions patterns patterns across frontend, backend, and storage stacks
• Some experience with SQL or SQL-like systems and big-data systems experience are a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

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, 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.