This role pays more than
99%
of similar roles. Most pay
$169,550–$231,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$371k
versus about
$200k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Pinterest
Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find ideas for home, style, recipes, and more. It serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide through its image and video pinboard product.
Pinterest currently has
82 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$164,695–$337,990
across 82 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Engineer, Big Data Platform, you will lead the strategy and technical direction of data infrastructure for mission-critical big data and AI applications. You will build and scale infrastructure frameworks to process petabytes-scale datasets, including compute engines, job management, resource management, scheduling, and remote shuffling. Collaborating with internal customers on critical business use cases, you will provide thought leadership on reliable, fast, and efficient data processing and storage at scale while contributing to the long-term technical roadmap. The role requires expertise in big data and machine learning technologies including Flink, Spark, Presto, Kubernetes, Ray, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. You must be proficient in Java, Go, Scala, or Python, with experience in AWS technologies. This role solves complex infrastructure challenges for processing exabytes of data to power core platform features.
What does a Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $189520 from 49 postings across 15 companies.
Remote (Palo Alto, CA)+17 days ago
$242,634–$499,541
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