Staff Software Engineer, Service Configuration Deployments

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$177,185–$364,795 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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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.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Service Configuration Deployments

As a Staff Software Engineer, Service Configuration Deployments, you will join the Service Configuration Deployment team to own the end-to-end technical strategy and long-term vision for configuration and coordination infrastructure. You will build platforms, APIs, and tooling to make dynamic configuration and service coordination safe, scalable, and reliable across regions and clouds. Your daily responsibilities include orchestrating configuration ecosystems for feature flags and ML settings, migrating legacy substrates to modern platforms, and architecting next-generation control plane interfaces. You will utilize distributed coordination, substrate design, and AI-enabled workflows to synthesize requirements into executable roadmaps. Key skills include expertise in high-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and aligning configuration surfaces with deployment pipelines like IaC or CI/CD to eliminate architectural circularity and reduce service owner toil.

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What you'll do

  • Orchestrate the long-term technical vision for configuration ecosystems to ensure unified paved paths for feature flags and ML settings.
  • Champion operational safety through standardized validation, staged rollout mechanisms, and robust governance frameworks across the organization.
  • Spearhead the migration of mission-critical use cases from legacy substrates to modern platforms.
  • Architect next-generation control plane interfaces and high-performance, read-optimized APIs for human and automated operators.
  • Direct the integration of coordination stacks to refine service discovery and accelerate regional expansion.
  • Leverage AI-enabled workflows to synthesize partner requirements into executable infrastructure roadmaps.
  • Maintain accountability through rigorous data validation, metric-driven reviews, and comprehensive peer verification.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 10 years experience in high-scale infrastructure and distributed environments.
  • Proven expertise in orchestrating cross-functional technical strategies for control-plane systems like experiments or feature flags.
  • Advanced proficiency in distributed coordination and substrate design, including complex consistency models and failure domains.
  • Experience aligning configuration surfaces with deployment pipelines and orchestration frameworks like IaC or CI/CD.
  • History of elevating senior engineering talent while steering parallel workstreams into a unified technical vision.
  • Ability to catalyze execution via AI-enabled workflows while ensuring accountability through data validation and peer review.
  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • US based applicants only.

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