Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and innovation. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their Infrastructure Data Science team, where the main responsibilities include partnering with engineering teams to enhance infrastructure measurement and optimization.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering teams to define, measure, and improve the health, quality, and efficiency of Pinterest's infrastructure systems
- Build and refine metrics, dashboards, and analytical frameworks that make complex technical systems more understandable and actionable
- Strengthen data foundations by improving metric definitions, auditing data quality, and contributing to pipeline and measurement improvements where needed
- Design and analyze experiments, investigations, and deep dives to quantify the impact of infrastructure changes on user experience, reliability, and business outcomes
- Translate ambiguous technical problems into clear analyses and actionable recommendations for engineering and platform partners
- Support high-priority investigations and decision-making related to infrastructure performance, reliability, cost, and measurement quality
- Identify opportunities to improve how Pinterest measures and optimizes infrastructure across a range of domains, such as performance, shopping infrastructure, governance, metrics quality, and site reliability
Skills
- 4+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems with large-scale data
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Strong SQL and analytical programming skills, with experience working through messy, imperfect data and building reliable metrics and datasets
- Experience partnering on or contributing to production-ready data pipelines, measurement systems, or foundational data work that improves data quality and usability
- Solid foundation in experimentation and measurement, with the ability to design analyses, interpret results rigorously, and partner effectively with engineers and other cross-functional stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous problems into clear analytical workstreams and actionable recommendations
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings clearly to engineering, product, and platform stakeholders
- Ability to operate independently, prioritize across both longer-term projects and fast-turn inbound requests, and drive work forward in a dynamic environment
- Curiosity and a builder mindset, with excitement for improving messy systems and creating more scalable, trustworthy measurement foundations
Benefits
- The position is also eligible for equity.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
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