Sr. Production Engineer

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The Production Engineering organization at Pinterest is accountable for ensuring overall Pinterest availability as well as enhancing Engineering teams’ capability to design, build and operate robust systems at scale. We are hiring a Sr. SRE to join our Compute SRE team. This team is responsible for ensuring that all compute workloads run smoothly on Pinterest. We're building the future on kubernetes and our job is to connect it with what Pinterest needs.

Pinterest’s applications and infrastructure that handle billions of monthly page views and petabytes of data as Pinterest continues to grow and scale. As a Pinterest SRE, you will design and build systems, platforms, tools, frameworks and methodologies to assure the reliability of our large-scale distributed systems.

What You’ll Do:

Tackle project challenges on EKS, such as implementing Karpenter. This work affects how every developer codes, tests, and improves their work

Collaborate across various teams to drive projects forward using open-source tools

Build a deep understanding of how Pinterest’s systems behave, scale, interact and fail, and use that insight to identity risks and opportunities for remediation

Build tools and automation to eliminate toil and reduce operational overhead. Create frameworks, processes and best practices to be used across Pinterest Engineering

Build meaningful, insightful and actionable SLIs

Automate critical portions of Pinterest’s engineering processes, to minimize risk and maximize the speed of innovation

Manage capacity and performance to help scale our infrastructure both on public and private clouds around the world

Use AI for analysis of incidents, operational signals, and system behaviors to help identify patterns and generate plans and propose remediation approaches.

Leverage AI to speed development of runbooks, automation workflows, reliability tooling by drafting, iterating, and refining approaches.

What We’re Looking For:

Strong knowledge of Kubernetes (specially EKS), including deploy patterns, rollout safety, and core debugging workflows

4+ years of experience with programming languages (Python or Golang preferred)

Strong experience managing projects and initiatives end-to-end

Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot or Claude for code generation, debugging, and documentation

Demonstrated ability to write effective prompts to get high-quality, reliable outputs from LLMs

Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs.

Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review)

High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables

Experience with technologies such as Terraform, Buildkite, and/or ArgoCD is required

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

This job posting is for an open vacancy. Please note that the company utilizes artificial intelligence to screen applicants for the positions.

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 per half and therefore can be situated anywhere in Ontario.

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