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Work for Pinterest!

Join a World-Class Product Team.

Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social services in the world. Our mission is to connect people through their common interests.

Every day, people use Pinterest to discover new recipes to cook, products to buy, and places to visit. Pinterest is loved by millions of regular people: school teachers, gardeners, techies...even our Parents!

Work & Benefits

Our team ships code quickly and iteratively. We care about details. We think design and community management are as important as great technology.

Our goal is to empower every person at Pinterest to do their best work. This means working collaboratively, and giving every person ownership over an important part of our service.

We value learning, and invite successful entrepreneurs from other companies to grab lunch with the team regularly. Other benefits include:

  • Medical

    Comprehensive medical benefits.
    We want you to be healthy!

  • Equipment

    Whatever you need to be productive is what you should be using. Usually, that means lots of trips to the Apple Store.

  • Salary & Equity

    Every employee is paid a competitive salary and given meaningful equity in the company.

  • Location

    We are 4 blocks from the King Street Caltrain in San Francisco/SOMA, steps away from good food and coffee.

Software Engineer

As an engineer, you will have a huge impact on how we design, build and deliver our service to millions of people. You should be a generalist and enjoy working across the software stack. Our current technologies include Python (Django), MySQL, Redis, Solr, and Hadoop.

We look for engineers who love finding efficient and thoughtful solutions to a variety of technical and product challenges. You should strive to write efficient, maintainable code and you should enjoy pushing code everyday. Sample projects include:

Search

Design algorithms to return socially and thematically relevant content.

API

Build and maintain an API for third party developers.

Recommendations

Use MapReduce to recommend content to new users.

Measurement

Implement real-time measurement frameworks to help us evaluate new features.

Speed & Scale

Improving site speed by implementing comprehensive caching and optimizing queries.

When applying, make sure to send links to things you've built.

Site Reliability Engineer

The Site Reliability Engineer will help design, build and monitor our applications and systems infrastructure that currently now handles billions of monthly page views.

You should have a software engineering background and a strong understanding of systems internals, and love building and running massive-scale web production systems and application environments. You get excited about reacting to a problem to find a solution and thrive on being tactically focused to ensure Pinterest’s site reliability. A few other things we look for:

Fundamentals

Experience with Linux/Unix/BSD and running infrastructure with Amazon Web Services. Automation experience with tools such as Chef or Puppet and strong scripting skills in Bash, Python or Ruby. Database management in MySQL. Architecting MySQL or NoSQL databases a plus.

Education

BA/BS degree in Math or Computer Science a plus.

Ambition

A desire to improve yourself as an engineer.

Culture

Broad personal interests beyond software.

Personality

Enthusiasm for working collaboratively with talented people.

Product Designer

You will be responsible for defining how people interact with Pinterest. We're looking for designers passionate about social product design - not just how Pinterest looks (although that counts too), but how people use Pinterest to connect with each other. Our product designers sit with engineers at the beginning of every new project. We care about how every little bit of an interaction feels, and you need to as well.

Communication

You should be able to clearly articulate your design decisions.

Execution

Portfolio of design projects demonstrating outstanding product design skill.

Self-Sufficiency

The ability to implement what you design (javascript, css, html).

Social

Passion for social web applications and social design.

Mobile

Experience with mobile design is a plus.

Learning

Desire to better yourself as a product designer.

When applying, make sure to send a link to your portfolio.

Search and Data Mining Engineer

You will be responsible for mining our deeply linked data set connecting millions of people to the objects they love. Our data set gives us the opportunity to provide personal recommendations of unprecedented specificity and quality. Your work will help millions of people discover products, services and places they love.

Programming Fundamentals

Proficiency in the programming language of your choice. Python preferred.

Curiosity

Boundless appetite to form hypotheses and run experiments on our expanding data set.

Communication

The ability to clearly articulate your hypotheses and findings.

Education

Minimum BA/BS degree in Math or Computer Science.

Love of Data

Strong interest in search engines, machine learning, recommendation systems, or social networks.

iOS Engineer

You will be responsible for bringing Pinterest to the iPhone and iPad. We think of iOS as a core platform at Pinterest. You will work closely with a team of experienced engineers and product designers to bring your vision for Pinterest on iOS to reality. This role requires experience with iOS and a strong understanding (and appreciation) of touch and gestural interfaces. Ideal candidates will have applications they have built as personal or professional projects.

When applying, make sure to include links to apps you've built.

Front-End Engineer

Pinterest is one of the most visually engaging social applications on the web. The front-end engineer will help us push the boundaries of what is possible. You'll work side by side with outstanding designers. You should be proficient in HTML, CSS and Javascript. You should appreciate the details that make a front-end user experience memorable, and demonstrate enthusiasm for new front-end technologies. A few other things we look for:

Execution

A portfolio of products you have shipped.

Attention to Detail

An appreciation for high-quality execution.

Ambition

A desire to improve yourself as an engineer.

Culture

Broad personal interests beyond software.

Personality

Enthusiasm for working collaboratively with talented people.

Marksmanship

Excellence in NERF dart-throwing a plus.

When applying, make sure to send a link to your portfolio.