Principal Engineer, Big Data Platform
Pinterest · San Francisco, CA, US; Remote · Remote-friendly
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- Company
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US; Remote
- Salary
- $242,634 — $499,541
- Posted
- September 2, 2026
About this job
We’re looking for a principal software engineer to lead the next generation of data infrastructure at Pinterest which powers mission critical big data and AI applications. You’ll be working on some of the most exciting big data and AI open source technologies (Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, etc.), at the scale of exabytes of data to help Pinners discover and do what they love. What you’ll do: Lead the strategy and technical direction of Pinterest’s data infrastructure for big data and AI applications Build and scale data infra frameworks and infrastructure to process petabytes-scale datasets, including compute engines, job management, resource management, scheduling and remote shuffling Work with internal customers on critical business use cases that rely on big data Provide thought leadership…
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