Infrastructure Data Scientist — Metrics & Reliability

Segment (Twilio); San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 139,764 - 287,749; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Data Scientist to join its Infrastructure Data Science team to make infrastructure measurable, intelligible, and actionable. You will partner with engineering and cross-functional teams to improve how we measure, understand, and optimize infrastructure.

The role focuses on building metrics, dashboards, and experiments that quantify the impact of infrastructure changes on reliability, performance, and business outcomes, while strengthening data quality and pipeline

Qualifications

• 4+ years of post-graduate experience applying scientific methods to large-scale data.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong SQL and analytical programming skills.
• Experience with production-ready data pipelines or measurement systems.
• Ability to design experiments and interpret results rigorously.
• Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering and cross-functional teams to improve how Pinterest measures and optimizes its infrastructure.
• Define, measure, and improve the health, quality, and efficiency of Pinterest’s infrastructure systems.
• Build metrics, dashboards, and analytical frameworks that make complex technical systems more understandable and actionable.
• Strengthen data foundations by improving metric definitions, auditing data quality, and contributing to pipeline and measurement improvements.
• Design and analyze experiments, investigations, and deep dives to quantify the impact of infrastructure changes on user experience, reliability, and business outcomes.
• Translate ambiguous technical problems into clear analyses and actionable recommendations for engineering and platform partners.
• Support high-priority investigations and decision-making related to infrastructure performance, reliability, cost, and measurement quality.
• Identify opportunities to improve how Pinterest measures and optimizes infrastructure across domains such as performance, shopping infrastructure, governance, metrics quality, and site reliability.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Experiment design

Data pipelines

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Data Scientist to join its Infrastructure Data Science team to make infrastructure measurable, intelligible, and actionable. You will partner with engineering and cross-functional teams to improve how we measure, understand, and optimize infrastructure.

The role focuses on building metrics, dashboards, and experiments that quantify the impact of infrastructure changes on reliability, performance, and business outcomes, while strengthening data quality and pipeline