Remote Position
[Remote] Principal Engineer, Big Data Platform
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that helps people discover creative ideas and plan meaningful experiences. The company seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the strategy, technical direction, and development of large-scale data infrastructure supporting big data and AI applications.
Responsibilities
- 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 to the entire company on how data should be processed and stored more reliably, quickly and efficiently at scale
- Contribute to the team’s technical vision and long-term roadmap
Skills
- 12+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of technical excellence
- 8+ years of experience of building and support large scalable Kubernetes or big data platform
- Deep knowledge of big data / ML technologies (e.g. Flink, Spark, Presto, Kubernetes, Ray, PyTorch/TensorFlow)
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Java, Go, Scala, Python)
- Experiences in Kubernetes and AWS technologies
- Exceptional collaboration skills with cross-functional partners, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, make tradeoffs, and keep stakeholders aligned on priorities and progress
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country
- US based applicants only
Benefits
- The position is also eligible for equity.
- Flexible work arrangement: the role can be situated anywhere in the country and requires in-office collaboration 1-2 times per quarter.
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