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Staff Software Engineer (Service Communications)
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PythonJavaAI
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$177,185 – $364,795 / year
Location:
San Francisco, CA, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
13 September 2026
What they need
- The Service Communications team manages the foundational high-layer networking systems ensuring reliable, secure, and performant service-to-service interactions at Pinterest. Our Envoy-based mesh and multi-language frameworks provide critical primitives for hundreds of internal services, and we are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead technical strategy across identity, traffic optimization, and platform scaling
- Architect and deploy advanced service mesh features, focusing on service discovery, traffic shaping, and deep observability using Envoy proxy
- Lead the organization-wide adoption of service identity and mTLS to satisfy critical AAA security requirements for service-to-service paths
- Design traffic optimization primitives like locality-aware routing to materially reduce data transfer costs for high-volume service traffic
- Maintain and modernize service framework libraries in Java, Python, and C++, enhancing the developer experience and operational reliability
- Collaborate with service owners across the company to drive adoption and refine infrastructure requirements for emerging feature needs
- Partner with infrastructure peers on multi-region and multi-cloud strategies that rely on robust service communication primitives
- Use AI to accelerate analysis and iteration, while applying judgment and verification to ensure correctness and quality
- Join the team oncall rotation to manage incident response, perform post-mortems, and drive long-term reliability improvements- Demonstrated experience driving the adoption of complex platform capabilities across diverse cross-functional engineering teams
- Strong understanding of service security, including mTLS adoption and identity management via SPIFFE/SPIRE
- 6+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience, specifically within distributed systems or RPC framework development
- Proficiency across multiple languages (Java, Python, C++) and a track record of building internal libraries or developer tools
- Deep technical expertise in service mesh technologies such as Envoy or Istio, including hands-on experience with L7 proxying
- Proven ability to design highly available and efficient distributed systems at massive scale
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated experience using AI to accelerate engineering workflows, with a clear approach to validating accuracy and quality
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