Site Reliability Engineer II

Pinterest

84d • $113,166 - $232,988

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. The Site Reliability 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. 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.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix/BSD internals and experience working with open source software (e.g. MySQL, Hadoop, Envoy, HAProxy, Nginx).
• Experience with technologies such as ElasticSearch, ZooKeeper, HBase, Hadoop, Memcache and Kafka with a focus on reliability, automation, operability and performance.
• 2+ years of experience programming using Python or Go.
• Infrastructure as code a plus (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Fabric, Docker, etc).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science a related field or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Bonus points if experienced with deploying web apps to cloud infrastructure (AWS, etc.) and working with distributed, service-oriented architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop software solutions to enable reliability and operability of large scale distributed systems handling petabytes of data and serving.
• Build a deep understanding of how Pinterest’s systems behave, scale, interact and fail, and use that insight to identify 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.

Benefits

• Equity eligibility.
• Base salary range of $113,166—$232,988 USD.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees