Staff Software Engineer, Configuration Management

March 20

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Description

• 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. • 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here. • US based applicants only • Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.