Software Engineer II

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isnt just a feature, its a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here .

About Pinterest

Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most.

Our mission

is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. As a Pinterest employee, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping users make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.

The MySQL Infra team manages one of Pinterests most vital backend systems, offering huge scope and impact by serving hundreds of business-critical use cases across the entire company

Pinterest’s MySQL online database system operates at a massive scale, managing 100+ production clusters with 6 PB of data This role provides a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems

The team works on challenging, exciting, and impactful projects, including next-generation storage infrastructure, compute modernization initiatives, and innovations related to AI.

What you’ll do

Work with a team of engineers and database specialists to build and support reliable, performant and efficient database systems that operate at a huge scale and empower numerous business critical applications across the entire company. Design, implement, and maintain mission-critical features that will help us deliver robust MySQL infras