Performance Engineer

Egreenservices; Temecula (CA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest in Temecula, CA is seeking a mid-level Performance Engineer for a full-time role. The position offers a salary range of $98,000 to $142,000 and clear room for advancement.

You will work on high-impact, production-grade C#-like performance workflow tasks (note: the original mention is Kafka-related). This role emphasizes mentorship, collaboration across teams, and delivering low-latency improvements in a production environment.

Qualifications

• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence.
• Curiosity about why Pinterest customers do what they do.
• Comfort with full-time arrangements and a heads-down-and-happy workplace rhythm.
• Comfort presenting to a CA-wide audience without a script.
• Familiarity with Pinterest-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them.
• Data-honest problem-solving that doesn't wait for permission.

Responsibilities

• Pair with technology analysts so Kafka models match real behavior.
• Own the Coaching subsystem that the rest of Pinterest depends on.
• Read Terraform stack traces and trace bugs to their root.
• Keep Kafka dependencies patched before CVEs become incidents.
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that users feel.
• Reverse-engineer the Pinterest Kafka format that is inherited.

Skills

Rapport building

User curiosity

Full-time mindset

Public speaking (CA)

Pinterest-scale workflows

Accountability

Data-driven problem solving

Tools

Kafka

Terraform

Tracing tools

Job description

If you love writing clean, performant C# code that runs in production, this full-time role in Temecula, CA was made for you. We're hiring a mid-level Performance Engineer to join Pinterest on a full-time basis, with $98,000 - $142,000 on offer and genuine room to advance.

Key Responsibilities

• Pair with technology analysts so Pinterest's Kafka models match real behavior
• Own the oddball-friendly Coaching subsystem that the rest of Pinterest quietly depends on
• Read the Terraform stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Keep Pinterest's Kafka dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Pinterest users feel every click
• Reverse-engineer the sharp-but-gentle Kafka format Pinterest inherited and never documented

What You'll Bring

• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
• Real curiosity about why Pinterest customers do what they do
• Comfort with full-time arrangements and the rhythms of a heads-down-and-happy workplace
• Comfort presenting to a CA-wide audience without a script
• Familiarity with Pinterest-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them
• Comfort being accountable for a low-drama outcome in a full-time role
• Data-honest problem-solving that doesn't wait for permission

Pinterest builds technology tools the way old shops built furniture — slowly, in Temecula, CA, and with a wildly-collaborative respect for the craft. Our Temecula office prizes the quiet contributor who makes everyone around them measurably better.

For this Performance Engineer role we offer $98,000 - $142,000, a mentor who has walked the path, and benefits designed for life outside Pinterest.

As of this visit, Pinterest is actively reviewing for the Performance Engineer role.