Staff Engineer - Configuration & Deployment Orchestration

Pinterest, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Pinterest, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the strategy and long-term vision for configuration and coordination infrastructure.

You will partner with Traffic, Compute, Observability, and Cloud Architecture teams to deliver scalable, high-performance systems across regions and clouds. The role emphasizes guiding legacy migrations, building secure APIs, and driving AI-powered design and validation with strong ownership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in high-scale infrastructure and distributed environments.
• Expertise architecting or managing backend substrates in production.
• Experience aligning configuration surfaces with deployment pipelines and orchestration frameworks.
• Proven ability to elevate senior engineers and synthesize parallel workstreams.
• Demonstrated ownership and accountability for long-term architectural outcomes.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to leverage AI-enabled workflows for design, analysis and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term technical strategy for configuration ecosystems and control planes.
• Lead migration of legacy components to modern platforms with scalable onboarding.
• Architect high-performance, read-optimized APIs for operators and automated agents.
• Guide cross-region integration and accelerate regional expansion with clean architecture.
• Drive AI-enabled workflows to translate partner requirements into executable roadmaps.

Skills

High-scale infra

Distributed environments

Control-plane architecture

IaC/CI-CD experience

AI-enabled workflows

Leadership of senior engineers

Cross-functional strategy

Ownership & accountability

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS or CE

Tools

IaC tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed coordination platforms

Job description

Pinterest, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the strategy and long-term vision for configuration and coordination infrastructure.

You will partner with Traffic, Compute, Observability, and Cloud Architecture teams to deliver scalable, high-performance systems across regions and clouds. The role emphasizes guiding legacy migrations, building secure APIs, and driving AI-powered design and validation with strong ownership.