Staff Software Engineer, Big Data, tvScientific

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Quick summary

Work type: Remote
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $177,185–$364,795 / yr
Posted: 13 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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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 36 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Big Data, tvScientific

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As a Staff Data Engineer at Pinterest's tvScientific team, you will lead the design and implementation of identity services and data governance platforms, ensuring trusted and privacy-safe data across the organization. Your day-to-day responsibilities include building scalable identity resolution systems, creating pipelines for ingesting and normalizing identity data from multiple sources, and implementing deterministic matching logic. You will also partner with product and analytics teams to expose identity data through reliable APIs and datasets while adhering to privacy-by-design principles such as PII handling and regulatory compliance. The role requires proficiency in Spark and Scala, experience with AWS services, and a strong understanding of data governance practices including metadata management and access controls. This position demands expertise in building large-scale data infrastructure and collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Spark Scala AWS Data Governance Privacy-by-design Data Lakes Cloud Warehouses APIs Data Quality Metadata Management Access Controls CI/CD Monitoring Alerting Documentation Kafka Hadoop PostgreSQL Snowflake Redshift Git Jenkins

What you'll do

Design and maintain a scalable identity resolution platform.
Build pipelines to ingest, normalize, link, and version identity data from multiple sources.
Ensure transparent, auditable, and measurable deterministic and probabilistic matching logic.
Implement privacy-by-design principles for handling PII and enforcing consent.
Own data governance foundations including lineage, quality checks, schema enforcement, and access controls.

What we're looking for

Production data engineering experience and proficiency in Spark and Scala.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent technical experience.
Experience delivering large-scale services and APIs with complex datasets.
Strong understanding of privacy-by-design principles for sensitive data.
Familiarity with AWS services, data lakes, cloud warehouses, and storage formats.
Successful design and implementation of scalable data infrastructure.
High attention to detail in automated data quality checks and governance.

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