Staff Software Engineer, Cache Infra

About the role

Multinational platform Pinterest aims to inspire users to create lives they love through creative ideas, dreams, and plans. Joining Pinterest means being part of a team that transforms passion into growth opportunities, celebrates diverse experiences, and offers flexible work environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and direction to a high-performing team to build reliable, performant, and efficient caching systems that serve hundreds of business-critical use cases across the entire company.
• Contribute to a cross-functional strategic initiative to modernize the cache infra tech stack by adopting cutting-edge technologies.
• Maintain a high engineering standard for cache infrastructure, focusing on continuous improvement in reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and developer velocity.
• Serve as a member of the Cache Infra on-call team, providing timely support for all pages and critical issues, including monitoring, prompt response to alerts, issue diagnosis/resolution, and communicating status to stakeholders.
• Use AI to accelerate team execution, system design, and decision-making, applying sound judgment to validate outputs and ensure correctness and quality.
• Establish and maintain a high standard for technical excellence and production quality.
• Mentor senior engineers on the team, developing the next generation of caching infrastructure team leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience in large-scale distributed caching systems.
• Hands-on experience building and operating highly available, reliable, production-grade systems at scale.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in setting roadmap and driving execution, including defining technical direction, leading engineering alignment, and partnering across teams to deliver complex platform investments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and analytical mindset, with the ability to use data to guide decisions.
• Experience coding in one of the following languages: Java, Python, and/or C/C++.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI to accelerate development, enhance operations, and improve customer support.

Qualifications

• Relocation Statement: Not eligible for relocation assistance.
• In-Office Requirement Statement: Needs to be in a commutable distance from PA office.

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• $208,454—$364,795 USD

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