Senior AI-Driven Production Engineer, Reliability

Pinterest; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 139,764 - 287,749; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is actively seeking an experienced engineer to design AI agents that enhance reliability within their production environment. The successful candidate will have over 5 years of experience with high-performance systems and will be responsible for driving modernization efforts and automating key engineering processes.

Applicants must possess strong programming skills in Python or Go, alongside robust knowledge of Linux/Unix systems. This unique role offers a salary range from $139,764 to $287,749 USD and requires occasional in-office collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale, high-performance distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python or Go – ability to build production-grade platforms, agents, and automation.
• Experience deploying web applications to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI agents that augment production reliability work.
• Drive large-scale infrastructure modernization with AI-accelerated execution.
• Develop software solutions to enable reliability and operability of large-scale distributed systems.
• Automate critical portions of Pinterest's engineering processes.

Skills

Building large-scale distributed systems

Programming in Python or Go

Knowledge of Linux/Unix internals

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MySQL

Kafka

Envoy

Hadoop

Job description

Pinterest is actively seeking an experienced engineer to design AI agents that enhance reliability within their production environment. The successful candidate will have over 5 years of experience with high-performance systems and will be responsible for driving modernization efforts and automating key engineering processes.

Applicants must possess strong programming skills in Python or Go, alongside robust knowledge of Linux/Unix systems. This unique role offers a salary range from $139,764 to $287,749 USD and requires occasional in-office collaboration.