Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Pinterest; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A social media platform is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability of its large-scale distributed systems. Responsibilities include developing software solutions, managing systems performance, and automating processes to enhance operability. Candidates should have strong knowledge of Linux internals and experience with open source software. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science is required. This position is located in Ontario and allows for hybrid work arrangements, requiring in-office collaboration 1-2 times per half.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with programming languages like Python, Java, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix/BSD internals.

Responsibilities

• Develop software solutions for reliability of large-scale systems.
• Build tools and automation to minimize operational overhead.
• Manage capacity and performance for global infrastructure.

Skills

Linux/Unix/BSD internals

Programming languages (Python, Java, Ruby)

ElasticSearch

Hadoop

Open source software

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Docker

HAProxy

Nginx

Job description

Overview

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

The Site Reliability Engineering organization at Pinterest is accountable for ensuring overall Pinterest availability as well as enhancing Engineering teams’ capability to design, build and operate robust systems at scale.

Pinterest’s applications and infrastructure that handle billions of monthly page views and petabytes of data as Pinterest continues to grow and scale. As a Pinterest SRE, you will design and build systems, platforms, tools, frameworks and methodologies to assure the reliability of our large-scale distributed systems.

What you’ll do

• Develop software solutions to enable reliability and operability of large scale distributed systems handling petabytes of data and serving
• Build a deep understanding of how Pinterest’s systems behave, scale, interact and fail, and use that insight to identity risks and opportunities for remediation
• Build tools and automation to eliminate toil and reduce operational overhead. Create frameworks, processes and best practices to be used across Pinterest Engineering
• Build meaningful, insightful and actionable SLIs
• Automate critical portions of Pinterest’s engineering processes, to minimize risk and maximize the speed of innovation
• Manage capacity and performance to help scale our infrastructure both on public and private clouds around the world

What we’re looking for

• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix/BSD internals and experience working with open source software (e.g. MySQL, Hadoop, Envoy, HAProxy, Nginx)
• Experience with technologies such as ElasticSearch, ZooKeeper, HBase, Hadoop, Memcache and Kafka with a focus on reliability, automation, operability and performance
• 4+ years of experience with programming languages (Python, Java, Ruby, etc.)
• Infrastructure as code a plus (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Fabric, Docker, etc)
• Bonus points if experienced with deploying web apps to cloud infrastructure (AWS, etc.) and working with distributed, service-oriented architecture
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Relocation Statement

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we’re not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per half and therefore can be situated anywhere in Ontario.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.