Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- $139,764–$287,749 / yr
- Posted
- 7 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live yesterday
Market check
Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$226,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $186k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
Most-posted roles
- Software Engineer 18
- Machine Learning Engineer 11
- Data Scientist 8
- Technical Program Manager 6
- Product Manager 5
At a glance
TL;DR · Senior Data Scientist, Infrastructure
Sr. Data Scientist, Infrastructure joins the Infrastructure Data Science team to make complex technical systems more measurable, intelligible, and actionable. This role involves partnering with engineering and cross-functional teams to improve infrastructure health, quality, and efficiency across areas like app performance, shopping infrastructure, metrics quality, governance, and site reliability. The successful candidate will build data foundations, measurement systems, and analytical frameworks while designing experiments to quantify the impact of technical changes on user experience and business outcomes. Key responsibilities include translating ambiguous problems into clear analyses and auditing data quality for production-ready pipelines. Required skills include over four years of experience applying scientific methods to large-scale data, strong SQL and analytical programming capabilities, and a solid foundation in experimentation and measurement. The role focuses on solving technical challenges related to infrastructure performance, reliability, cost, and measurement quality.
What does a Data Scientist earn in Remote?
Median $217225 from 40 postings across 18 companies.
Skills
What you'll do
- Partner with engineering teams to measure and improve the health, quality, and efficiency of infrastructure systems.
- Build and refine metrics, dashboards, and analytical frameworks to make complex technical systems actionable.
- Strengthen data foundations by auditing data quality and improving metric definitions and pipelines.
- Design and analyze experiments to quantify the impact of infrastructure changes on user experience and reliability.
- Translate ambiguous technical problems into clear analyses and actionable recommendations for platform partners.
- Support high-priority investigations regarding infrastructure performance, cost, and measurement quality.
- Identify opportunities to optimize infrastructure across domains like site reliability and shopping systems.
What we're looking for
- Must have 4+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to large-scale data problems.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Strong SQL and analytical programming skills for handling messy data and building reliable metrics.
- Experience contributing to production-ready data pipelines and foundational measurement systems.
- Solid foundation in experimentation and measurement to design analyses and interpret results rigorously.
- Ability to translate ambiguous technical problems into clear analysis and actionable recommendations.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills to explain technical findings to engineering, product, and platform stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks in a dynamic environment.
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