Security Software Engineer II, Internal Identity & Access Management

Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and innovation, and they are looking for a Security Software Engineer II to enhance their Internal Identity & Access Management team. The role involves designing and implementing features for identity and authorization controls, while improving system performance and code quality using AI tools.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the technical roadmap for identity and authorization controls for users, services and AI Agents
• Design, implement, and maintain mission-critical features that will help us deliver robust IAM infrastructure and libraries to our customers
• Leverage Agentic AI to improve systems and least privilege, while applying judgment and verification to ensure correctness and quality
• Improve code quality and system performance using AI Coding Agents
• As member of the Infrastructure Security team, build performant and resilient AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Auditing) platform controls into various high-traffic services including our AI Agents, online/offline data platforms, databases, service mesh. (Envoy) and other critical infrastructure components

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of software development experience
• Experienced in developing features end to end, with preferred experience developing them in distributed systems
• Experience with critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review)
• Demonstrated ability to prototype and use AI tooling to improve reliability and quality of day-to-day workflow and system performance
• High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables
• Experience in some of the following areas is a strong plus: Identity, Account Security, Authentication/Authorization (OAuth, SAML, RBAC) protocols
• AWS or other public cloud infrastructure, containerization such as Kubernetes
• Infrastructure provisioning tools (Terraform, Puppet, etc.)
• Familiarity with networking protocols (Application layer)