This role pays more than
92%
of similar roles. Most pay
$172,237–$238,250
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$271k
versus about
$205k
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.
Staff Software Engineer, Observability joins the Observability team to design and build infrastructure providing visibility into large-scale distributed systems. This role involves defining the observability roadmap as a product, building high-performance data pipelines for real-time telemetry analysis, and establishing organizational standards for metrics, logs, traces, and profiling. The engineer will mentor others, lead architectural reviews, and collaborate with SRE and Infrastructure teams to improve system reliability and developer productivity. Required expertise includes distributed systems, data engineering, and cloud-native architectures like Kubernetes and service mesh. Candidates should be proficient in Java, Python, Go, or Scala and possess experience with tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, and Flink. The role focuses on solving the technical challenge of providing actionable insights across massive volumes of telemetry data to help engineers debug and optimize services.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.