Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest Job Advertisements
Palo Alto, CA
$251,680–$320,320from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Palo Alto, CA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend-focused software engineering role responsible for building and operating large-scale distributed systems that power user-facing applications. The work spans the full product lifecycle — from ideation through release — and includes designing data pipelines, workflow orchestration, event streaming, and improving developer tooling and processes. Suited to engineers with broad distributed systems and cloud infrastructure experience.
Senior level · 3+ years · Remote · Master's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,550 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,750–8,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
Location is not specified in the posting; telecommuting and remote employment are explicitly permitted, so this is treated as a fully remote US role.
The posting is structured as a formal labor-certification (PERM-style) job description, which accounts for its unusually precise years-of-experience requirements per skill.
The degree requirement is a hard gate: a Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or a closely related quantitative discipline is explicitly required — equivalent experience is not offered as a substitute.
Skill #10 (Big Data Processing) carries a 1-year minimum rather than the 3-year minimum applied to all other special skill requirements.
The 'such as' qualifiers throughout the Special Skills section indicate that the named tools are illustrative examples of a required capability, not the only acceptable tools; alternatives have been populated accordingly. However, because these skills appear under a hard-requirements heading, the underlying capability is treated as required.
The role blends backend distributed-systems engineering with significant data-pipeline and big-data work; 15-1243 (Database Architects) is noted as a secondary possibility given the data modeling and pipeline emphasis, though the primary framing is backend software development.
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