Staff Software Engineer, Trust Engineering

Pinterest; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media platform in Toronto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and develop highly scalable software systems for content quality and safety. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience, a strong background in distributed systems, and a proven record of technical leadership. This role involves mentoring other engineers and collaborating across teams to deliver impactful projects. This position offers a hybrid working model based in Ontario.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience in designing complex distributed systems.
• Proven track record in technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software systems for content quality and safety.
• Mentor and guide other engineers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on high-impact projects.

Skills

Building large-scale software systems

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Big data processing frameworks

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Flink

Job description

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 theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

The Trust Engineering - Serving Delivery team at Pinterest is responsible for ensuring that Pinners have a safe and engaging experience using Pinterest. Our platform is used by ML teams and Data Analysts to process billions of events everyday. As a staff software engineer, you will be a leader in designing and building our real time rule and action engine that is critical for protecting Pinterest against adversarial actors. You’ll work closely with ML engineers, indexing/ ranking teams and the api team at Pinterest with a goal of maintaining the Pinterest brand as the safe corner of the internet. The role involves working with leadership to shape the future roadmap of our systems and directly supporting the careers of ICs on the team through mentorship.

What you’ll do:

• Design and develop highly scalable, reliable and performant software systems to power content quality and safety infrastructure at Pinterest
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to other engineers on the team
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, data science and other engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver high-impact projects
• Drive engineering best practices and processes to continuously improve software quality, reliability and developer productivity
• Actively contribute to Pinterest's technical culture through code reviews, tech talks, open source projects and recruiting

What we’re looking for:

• 10+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale software systems in a product-driven environment
• Experience leading the design and development of complex, high-performance distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Proven track record of technical leadership and successfully delivering projects with multiple dependencies and stakeholders
• Experience with big data processing frameworks (e.g. Spark, Kafka, Flink) and building data pipelines
• Domain experience in building Trust and Safety systems at scale
• 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 Statement:

• 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.

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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 completethis formfor support.