Staff Software Engineer, Data Warehouse Foundation

Pinterest is a platform that helps people discover creative ideas and plan for the future. The company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership in designing data warehouse architecture and developing agentic analytical tools that support data-driven decision-making at scale. The role will lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Define and design Pinterest's data warehouse architecture, storage, and access patterns
• Lead ambiguous, highly challenging, and cross-functional initiatives across the data warehouse and agentic data analytics domains
• Mentor and elevate the technical bar for engineers, providing leadership on complex technical design, execution strategies, and critical trade-off decisions
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams to understand user needs, drive alignment and drive progress

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience with large scale data warehouses, data tools and platforms
• 5+ years experience building data warehouses and tools around the data ecosystem with technologies such as Spark, Trino, Flink, Airflow, Querybook, Superset, DataHub, etc
• Ability to work with cross-functional partners across multiple organizations
• Hands-on experience building tools and data pipelines leveraging AI coding tools, e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc
• Hands-on experience building AI tools and platforms to accelerate data pipeline authoring, data analytics and engineering productivity
• 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
• US based applicants only