Software Engineer I

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• Modernize the ML ecosystem across Pinterest content recommendation infra with a unified, modern, and scalable ML stack with Pytorch, Spark, Iceberg, and GPU based solution.
• Design and build scalable feature storage solutions to support real-time and batch ML applications.
• Work with product and engineering teams to understand dynamic requirements, incorporating these into the development roadmap.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define problems, identify technical challenges, and develop innovative solutions.
• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in ML infrastructure and apply them to enhance our systems.
• Develop and implement strategies for efficient data ingestion, data indexing, model training, and serving, ensuring scalability and reliability.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or closely related quantitative discipline.
• One (1) year of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.

Nice-to-haves

• Python
• Java
• SQL
• Distributed KV System
• Cloud tool on AWS or GCP
• Spark
• Streaming Processing
• Machine learning frameworks
• Tabular Data processing framework such as Pandas
• Distributed Systems
• Machine Learning
• Information Retrieval using Inverted Index
• Jupyter notebooks

Benefits

• Equity eligibility
• Transparent salary range