Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Data Product Platform

Pinterest

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

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $319k
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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $170,000–$233,225 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $319k versus about $202k for comparable roles.

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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 37 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,695–$332,012 across 37 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Data Product Platform

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As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer on Pinterest’s Data Product Platform team, you will lead technical initiatives that drive the company's data-driven decision-making by architecting and implementing solutions for data warehouse infrastructure, analytical tools, and governance policies. Your day-to-day responsibilities include defining strategic directions for data analytics platforms, designing comprehensive data governance frameworks, and mentoring engineers to enhance their technical capabilities. You will work with cross-functional teams to build scalable data ecosystems using technologies like Spark, Trino, Flink, Airflow, Querybook, Superset, and DataHub, while also leveraging AI tools to automate data pipeline authoring and analytics tasks. This role is pivotal in addressing the challenges of managing exadata-scale data warehouses and ensuring efficient, reliable, and compliant data handling across Pinterest’s expansive product portfolio.

Skills

Spark Trino Flink Airflow Querybook Superset DataHub Cursor Claude Code Codex AI coding tools Python SQL BigQuery Snowflake AWS Azure Data Factory Git JIRA CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Spearhead definition and design of Pinterest's data warehouse architecture.
  • Set strategic direction for world-class data analytics tools and platforms.
  • Define and drive adoption of comprehensive data governance policies and tooling.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to manage trade-offs among usability, efficiency, compliance.
  • Mentor engineers and provide leadership on complex technical decisions and strategies.

What we're looking for

  • Over 12 years of industry experience with large-scale data warehouses and tools.
  • Extensive hands-on experience building data warehouses using technologies like Spark, Trino, Flink, Airflow.
  • Expertise in developing data governance policies and tooling for data quality and compliance.
  • Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across cross-functional teams.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and elevating the technical standards within a team.
  • Hands-on experience with AI coding tools for building data pipelines and analytics platforms.

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