• Will contribute to the development of backend solutions and integration with Artificial Intelligence, building scalable, data-driven systems to support decision-making. • Develop and maintain medium- to high-complexity systems, working with considerable autonomy and without the need for constant direct supervision. • Activities such as development and coding, requirements analysis, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance and updates, and understanding of the business will be required.

• Professional responsible for the support and evolution of Mainframe environments, with a strong focus on batch workloads, failure troubleshooting, technical analysis and adjustments to COBOL programs, JCLs and databases. • Work closely with development, operations and business teams to ensure service continuity and SLA compliance. • Operate and monitor batch workloads in Control-M (Mainframe). • Act quickly on abends and execution failures: analysis, correction, release and reprocessing/restarts. • Perform quick inspections of programs to identify root cause and execution parameters. • Implement changes in JCLs and COBOL/DB2 programs (steps, DD statements, parameters, datasets, conditionals, return codes). • Adjust and validate SYSINs (cards and execution parameters). • Perform analyses and changes following formal change processes. • Work on afternoon/night shifts and weekends (rotating schedule).

Role Description We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help grow and build the core platform that powers our Flowcode 2 application at scale. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, leadership, and pragmatic execution with a focus on creating and augmenting reliable, scalable, and extensible services and applications. You’ll operate as a technical leader within our Platform pod, growing platform capabilities, building new features and problem solving in a dynamic and challenging technical environment. While this is a hands-on role, it requires a strong bias toward backend systems, distributed architecture and deep technical leadership. We value the ability to guide teams toward pragmatic, high-impact solutions. This role is ideal for an engineer who values simplicity, correctness, and pragmatism, and who can balance long-term platform investments with immediate business needs. What You’ll Do - Own critical systems end-to-end, including design, implementation and deployment. - Hands on designing, building, and maintaining scalable features across a modern front-end framework and backend services. - Architect for growth — help drive your pod’s technical roadmap and shepherd established engineering best practices. - Collaborate across teams with product, design, and data to deliver, measure, deliver and grow features quickly and iteratively. - Mentor and guide senior engineers, raising the bar for technical execution and system design across teams. - Balance ideal engineering with the realities of speed, customer needs, and startup resource constraints. - Drive improvements in observability, performance, and incident response. - Advocate for pragmatic solutions, solving the right problems with the appropriate level of complexity. Qualifications - 8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems, with a strong backend focus. - Deep expertise in building high-performance, concurrent services. - Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems and service-oriented architectures. - Strong understanding of API design, data modeling, and consistency tradeoffs. - Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and modern deployment patterns (Docker, Kubernetes). - Proficiency in several modern backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, C#, Java). - Commitment to code quality, with solid grounding in design patterns, testing, and CI/CD. - Strong grasp of scalability and performance, able to make informed tradeoffs between speed and correctness. - Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset. - A builder’s mentality, comfortable taking initiative and owning outcomes from design through production. - A history of working within 20+ person engineering organizations and collaborating with Product and Design to enable feature delivery at a reasonable velocity. How to Apply We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. A successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.

Title: Staff Software Engineer, Batch Processing Platform Location: Seattle, WA, US; Remote, US Job Description: 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. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help us build a high-performance, efficient, and easy to use batch processing platform and infrastructure at Pinterest. You’ll be working on some of the most exciting big data open source technologies such as Spark, Presto/Trino, Iceberg, etc. at the scale of hundreds of petabytes of data to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. What you’ll do: - Design, implement, and optimize Pinterest’s batch processing infrastructure. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs. - Lead technical projects and initiatives, driving them to completion. - Mentor and guide junior engineers on best practices and architecture. - Ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of data systems. What we’re looking for: - 6+ years of experience building and supporting large scalable big data infrastructure/platforms - Extensive experience with big data query technologies such as Spark SQL or Presto/Trino. - Proven skills in designing and maintaining scalable data infrastructure. - Proficiency in programming languages like Java, Scala, or Python. - Strong problem-solving abilities and a drive for innovation. - Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams. - Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience. 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. - 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. Relocation Statement: - This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model. #LI-REMOTE 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. US based applicants only $177,185—$364,795 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: Pinterest 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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.