Staff Software Engineer, Service Configuration Deployments
Pinterest · San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
About this role
**About Pinterest** Millions of people use Pinterest to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities, and plan memories that last a lifetime. At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love—powered by the people behind the product. Pinterest’s Service Configuration Deployment team builds the platforms, APIs, and tooling that make dynamic configuration and service coordination safe, scalable, and reliable across regions and clouds. This team serves as the central hub for cross-functional alignment and system orchestration. As a **Staff Software Engineer** in Service Configuration Deployments, you’ll own the end-to-end technical strategy and long-term vision for configuration and coordination infrastructure—partnering closely with Traffic, Compute, Observability, and Cloud Architecture teams to deliver robust, high-performance solutions at scale. **What you’ll do** - **Orchestrate the long-term technical vision** for configuration ecosystems to ensure feature flags, ML settings, and experiments follow unified, safe paths—championing operational safety through standardized validation, staged rollouts, and governance. - **Lead the transition from legacy substrates** by migrating mission-critical use cases to modern platforms, establishing scalable onboarding patterns to help teams evolve configuration lifecycles with precision and minimal friction. - **Architect next-generation control plane interfaces and diagnostic surfaces**, building high-performance, read-optimized APIs that enable both human operators and automated assistants to manage and reason about complex production states. - **Direct integration of coordination stacks** across deployment and multi-region landscapes—refining service discovery and substrate architecture to accelerate regional expansion while eliminating bespoke toil and architectural circularity. - **Leverage AI to catalyze infrastructure design and analytical phases**, using assistant-enabled workflows to synthesize partner requirements into executable roadmaps—backed by rigorous data validation, metric-driven reviews, and peer verification. **What we’re looking for** - **10+ years** experience in high-scale infrastructure and distributed environments, with a track record of architecting or managing business-critical backend substrates in production. - Proven expertise **orchestrating cross-functional technical strategies** for control-plane systems (e.g., experiments, feature flags, ML config), unifying teams around standardized and safe rollout methodologies. - Advanced proficiency in **distributed coordination** and substrate design—navigating consistency models, failure domains, and building resilient, high-leverage abstractions. - Experience **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. - History of **elevating senior engineering talent** while steering parallel workstreams—synthesizing loosely coupled initiatives into a unified technical vision and roadmap. - Ability to **catalyze execution via AI-enabled workflows** (e.g., design synthesis, analytical phases, documentation) while maintaining rigorous accountability through data validation, peer review, and metric-driven verification. - **Extreme ownership and professional integrity**: safeguarding data, maintaining human-in-the-loop oversight for automate
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