Senior Staff Software Engineer, Configuration & Coordination

Remote Hybrid

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Work type: Remote
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $208,592–$429,454 / yr
Posted: 4 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $319k

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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 40 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $174,326–$351,936 across 40 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Configuration & Coordination

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As a Senior Staff Software Engineer (IC17) on Pinterest’s Service Configuration & Coordination team, you will lead the technical strategy and vision for configuration and coordination infrastructure, ensuring robust, scalable solutions across regions and clouds. Your responsibilities include orchestrating the transition from legacy systems to modern platforms, architecting high-performance APIs, integrating coordination stacks within deployment landscapes, and leveraging AI to streamline workflows. You must have extensive experience in high-scale distributed environments, expertise in control-plane system orchestration, advanced proficiency in distributed coordination, and a track record of aligning configuration with deployment pipelines while elevating engineering talent.

Skills

Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Terraform AWS PostgreSQL Python Go Prometheus Grafana AI Machine Learning Feature Flags Service Discovery Infrastructure as Code Observability Cloud Architecture API Design Data Validation Metric-Driven Development

What you'll do

Define and execute the long-term technical vision for configuration ecosystems.
Migrate mission-critical use cases from legacy systems to modern platforms.
Architect high-performance control plane interfaces and diagnostic surfaces.
Integrate coordination stacks within deployment and multi-region landscapes.
Utilize AI to synthesize partner requirements into executable roadmaps.

What we're looking for

Decade-plus experience in high-scale infrastructure and distributed systems.
Expertise in orchestrating technical strategies for control-plane systems.
Advanced proficiency in distributed coordination and substrate design.
Experience aligning configuration surfaces with deployment pipelines.
History of elevating senior engineering talent and steering workstreams.
Ability to catalyze execution via AI-enabled workflows.
Strong ownership and professional integrity in architectural outcomes.

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