Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and helps users plan memorable experiences. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to operate and improve a cloud-native platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, and automation.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of production infrastructure and platform services
- Operating and scaling Kubernetes platforms, including governance and support for multi-tenant workloads
- Managing GitOps-based deployment workflows using ArgoCD and Helm
- Supporting infrastructure provisioning and change management through Terraform/Terragrunt
- Building and supporting CI/CD automation and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions
- Participating in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvement initiatives
- Reducing operational toil through scripting, tooling, and process automation
- Advancing observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting
- Supporting secure secrets integration, IAM-aware operations, and platform guardrails
- Partnering closely with application, security, and platform teams to improve reliability and delivery outcomes
Skills
- 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure
- Strong hands-on experience operating AWS in production environments
- Good expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster operations, troubleshooting, workload reliability, and platform administration
- Experience with Kubernetes multi-tenancy, including namespaces, RBAC, quotas, policies, and tenant isolation patterns
- Experience implementing and operating ArgoCD within a GitOps delivery model
- Strong hands-on experience with Helm
- Experience with Terraform/Terragrunt for infrastructure provisioning and environment management
- Solid scripting and automation skills using Bash and/or Python
- Experience building, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions
- Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux, containers, IAM, networking, and distributed systems
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability in production environments
- Demonstrated ownership mindset with experience handling incidents and resolving production issues
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, security, and platform teams
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, a related field or equivalent experience
- 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
Benefits
- The position is also eligible for equity.
- Visit ourPinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
- Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
- We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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