Safety Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Flagstaff (AZ); On-site; USD 67,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is hiring a Safety Engineer in Flagstaff, AZ. You’ll hunt down and refactor complexity, focusing on Kubernetes, Swift, and Cypress to improve reliability and reduce debt.

The role emphasizes ownership, cross-team collaboration, and delivering robust features with a strong eye for operational security. From our Flagstaff office, you’ll partner with teams to patch RabbitMQ, map data flows across Terraform services, and ensure CI runs quickly.

Qualifications

• Clear thinking under pressure.
• Judgment seasoned by at least 1 year of real consequences.
• Diplomacy to align stakeholders who don’t agree yet.
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action.
• Strong working knowledge of Swift and Cypress.
• Sounds instincts for reading a room you’ve never been in before.

Responsibilities

• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Keep RabbitMQ dependencies patched to avoid CVEs.
• Map data flow across Terraform services and spot leaks.
• Deliver junior-quality features within the $67,000 - $95,000 Safety Engineer mandate.
• Chase down the Kubernetes integration that quietly drops events at midnight.
• Keep Kubernetes CI under ten minutes so Flagstaff engineers stay in flow.
• Slice the monolith into Cypress services Flagstaff can deploy alone.

Skills

Swift

Cypress

Kubernetes

Tools

RabbitMQ

Terraform

Job description

Some engineers tolerate complexity; the Safety Engineer we want at Pinterest hunts it down and refactors it out of existence. We're looking for 1+ years of Kubernetes; in return you'll get $67,000 - $95,000, ownership, and a team worth joining.

Key Responsibilities

• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Keep Pinterest's RabbitMQ dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Map data flow across Pinterest's Terraform services and spot the leaks
• Deliver junior-quality features within the $67,000 - $95,000 Safety Engineer mandate
• Chase down the Kubernetes integration that silently drops Pinterest events at midnight
• Keep Pinterest's Kubernetes CI under ten minutes so Flagstaff, AZ engineers stay in flow
• Slice the plainspoken technology monolith into Cypress services Flagstaff, AZ can deploy alone

What You'll Bring

• Clear thinking under the kind of pressure Flagstaff, AZ deadlines bring
• Judgment seasoned by at least 1 years of real consequences
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action
• Strong working knowledge of Swift and Cypress
• Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before

From our Flagstaff, AZ office, Pinterest ships employee-centric products used by companies large and small. At Pinterest feedback has a short half-life, delivered close to the moment it can still help.

Beyond the $67,000 - $95,000 base, Pinterest invests in your growth through paid certifications, conferences, and dedicated learning time.

The team just got the green light to hire, and this Safety Engineer role is first up.