About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more.
Pinterest’s Trust & Safety Tools team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build tooling that keeps Pinners safe and inspired. Backing up Pinterest’s promise of being a positive corner of the internet, our team is responsible for supporting operations agents, analysts, and other engineers with content safety efforts with internal tools to aid in scaled content moderation. As part of this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving the data systems that Pinterest uses to log business data.
What you’ll do:
- Leverage Python, MySQL, and other data skills to resolve current pain-points and suggest future improvements
- Provide easy integration points/APIs with web-based tooling that serves thousands of agents and millions of users
- Partner with T&S Operations, Policy, and Product, and other engineering teams across Pinterest
- Serve on an on-call rotation (roughly 1 week of every 8) to support our tools
What we’re looking for:
- 3+ years experience with Python, SQL, SparkSQL, Hive and/or other data systems
- Experience mentoring more junior engineers
- Comfortable diving into ambiguous technical problems, working closely with Product, Legal, Policy and Operations teams
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly in writing and verbally to many stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, 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 let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
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What We Do
Pinterest is the visual inspiration platform people around the world use to shop products personalized to their taste, find ideas to do offline and discover the most inspiring creators. Today, more than 460 million people come to the platform every month to explore and experience billions of ideas that have been saved. We’re proud to help people to discover and do what they love.
