Safety Engineer - Kubernetes, Refactor Debt, Grow with Certs

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

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.