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At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.\nDiscover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.\nAt Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.\nThrough our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.\nPinterest’s Service Configuration Deployment team builds the platforms, APIs, and tooling that make dynamic configuration and service coordination safe, scalable, and reliable for every service across regions and clouds, serving as the central hub for cross-functional alignment and system orchestration. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll own the end-to-end technical strategy and long-term vision for our configuration and coordination infrastructure. You’ll define the future of these mission-critical systems, partnering closely with Traffic, Compute, Observability, and Cloud Architecture teams to deliver robust, high-performance solutions at scale.\nWhat you’ll do:\nOrchestrate the long-term technical vision for configuration ecosystems to ensure feature flags, ML settings, and experiments utilize unified paved paths. 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Your leadership will refine service discovery and substrate architecture to accelerate regional expansion while eliminating bespoke toil and architectural circularity.\nLeverage AI to catalyze infrastructure design and analytical phases, utilizing assistant-enabled workflows to synthesize partner requirements into executable roadmaps. You will maintain absolute accountability through rigorous data validation, metric-driven reviews, and comprehensive peer verification.\nWhat we’re looking for:\nMinimum 10 years experience in high-scale infrastructure and distributed environments, with a track record of architecting or managing business-critical backend substrates in production settings.\nProven expertise in orchestrating cross-functional technical strategies for control-plane systems (e.g., experiments, feature flags, or ML config), unifying disparate teams around standardized and safe rollout methodologies.\nAdvanced proficiency in distributed coordination and substrate design-capable of navigating complex consistency models, failure domains, and the engineering of resilient, high-leverage abstractions.\nExperience aligning configuration surfaces with deployment pipelines and orchestration frameworks (e.g., IaC or CI/CD), with a focus on mitigating architectural circularity and reducing service owner toil.\nHistory of elevating senior engineering talent while steering parallel workstreams, synthesizing loosely coupled initiatives into a unified technical vision and executable roadmap.\n Ability to catalyze execution via AI-enabled workflows (e.g., design synthesis, analytical phases, or documentation) while ensuring rigorous accountability through data validation, peer review, and metric-driven verification.\nExtreme ownership and professional integrity: dedicated to safeguarding data, maintaining human-in-the-loop oversight for automated outputs, and taking full responsibility for long-term architectural outcomes.\nBachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\nIn-Office Requirement Statement: \nWe recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.\nThis role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6 months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.\nRelocation Statement:\nThis position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit ourPinFlex page to learn more about our working model.\nAt Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.\nInformation regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.\nUS based applicants only\n$177,185—$364,795 USD\nOur Commitment to Inclusion:\nPinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. 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