Golang Job: Software Engineer, Internal Identity & Access

The Internal Identity & Access Management team is responsible for maintaining critical production infrastructure that is responsible for providing reliable notions of Identity and strong authentication and authorization controls across Pinterest. Our backend is primarily written in Golang, Python with some C++ while our frontend tools are written in Javascript with React.js. We're looking for an experienced software engineer who will help us build strong, internal access controls for our production infrastructure. A security background is not necessary but ideal candidates will have familiarity with the problem space.

What you'll do:

• Help chart our future identity and access control strategy
• Design, implement, and maintain mission-critical software that will help us deliver robust IAM tooling to our customers.
• Collaborate with a variety of teams on how to build performant and resilient AAA controls into various high-traffic services like our big data platform, databases, service mesh and other critical infrastructure components
• Represent the IAM team across Pinterest and with our external partners
• Work with and mentor more junior engineers on the IIAM team

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years of software development experience
• A strong command of Golang, Java or Python
• A history of building & operating large scale distributed systems
• Meaningful experience in some of the following areas:
• Infrastructure provisioning tools (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
• Operating System internals (Linux strongly preferred)
• AWS, GCP or other public cloud infrastructure
• Authentication, authorization and directory protocols
• Networking protocols

US Applicants:

• The minimum and maximum salary for this position is $186,700 to $311,200 in the US;
• This position is eligible for equity; and
• Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found at https://www.pinterestcareers.com/pinterest-life/.

• This compensation and benefits information is based on Pinterest's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, travel, shift requirements, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise.

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