About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. 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.
Discover 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.
At 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.
Through 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.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead a high-performing team to build reliable, performant and efficient caching systems that operate at a huge scale and empower numerous business critical applications across the entire company.
- Lead a cross-functional strategic initiative to modernize the cache infra tech stack by adopting cutting-edge technologies.
- Maintain a high engineering standard for cache infrastructure, focusing on continuous improvement in reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and developer velocity.
- Drive the strategic migration of memcached from the current legacy deployment system to Kubernetes.
- Drive the team vision and strategy for the next 3 years and beyond.
- Help create a diverse and inclusive team culture that makes all feel welcome while encouraging critical thinking and candid feedback.
What We’re Looking For:
- 1+ years of Experience leading or managing engineering teams, including setting direction, driving execution, and supporting team members’ growth.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Strong technical background in distributed systems and storage/caching systems.
- Hands on experience building and operating highly available, reliable, production grade systems at scale.
- Experience coding in one of the following languages: Java, Python and/or C/C++.
- Experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI to accelerate development, enhance operations, and improve customer support.
- 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.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We 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.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per quarter and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: PA or SF offices.
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At 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.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, CA, United States
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