Staff Edge Engineer: AI-Driven Traffic & CDN

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 177,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead edge traffic management for automation traffic, bots, and crawlers. You will design and implement routing and enforcement in Envoy, collaborate with CDN providers, and mentor engineers while applying AI to accelerate prototyping and operational tasks.

The role requires building scalable edge systems, coordinating across vendors, and participating in on-call duties to improve reliability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering, with focus on traffic management.
• Experience with bot detection, scraping prevention, or automation traffic management is a plus.
• Proficiency in C++, Golang, or Python, with L7 proxy experience (Envoy, Nginx, Varnish, Traefik).
• Deep understanding of network protocols across L3-L7 and debugging production networking issues at scale.
• Experience gathering requirements from internal users and leading cross-functional plans.

Responsibilities

• Build Edge systems with in-house code, Envoy, and multiple CDN/DNS providers.
• Drive automation traffic management for bots and crawlers at scale.
• Design and implement request processing logic in Envoy for routing and enforcement.
• Collaborate with CDN vendors and internal teams to define integration points.
• Mentor engineers and demonstrate technical leadership through reviews and coaching.
• Use AI to accelerate prototyping, analysis, and operations while ensuring production readiness.
• Participate in on-call and drive incident response and reliability improvements.

Skills

C++

Golang

Python

Envoy

Networking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree or PhD (nice to have)

Tools

Envoy proxy

Nginx

Varnish

Traefik

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead edge traffic management for automation traffic, bots, and crawlers. You will design and implement routing and enforcement in Envoy, collaborate with CDN providers, and mentor engineers while applying AI to accelerate prototyping and operational tasks.

The role requires building scalable edge systems, coordinating across vendors, and participating in on-call duties to improve reliability.