Staff Software Engineer, Service Communications
Pinterest👥 5001 - 10,000 employees🏢 Computer Software
Staff Software Engineer, Service Communications, San Francisco + 1 other locations | Pinterest Careers.
Staff Software Engineer - Site Defense
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Distributed SystemsDdos MitigationNetwork SecurityMachine Learning
📜 Description
- Design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency systems that protect Reddit from DDoS attacks, bots, and automated abuse.
- Analyze, develop and evolve ingress-level defenses across CDN, edge, and internal infrastructure layers.
- Build systems to detect, score, and mitigate malicious traffic in real time at per-request and per-user granularity.
- Partner closely within Infrastructure and with Security, and internal Safety teams to balance security, performance, and user experience.
- Mentor junior engineers in their professional growth.
- Contribute to the team's ML-at-Ingress initiatives, including experimenting with models for traffic classification, bot detection, and anomaly detection.
🛠️ Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building and operating high throughput and low latency production distributed systems.
- Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages; Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.
- Experience with DDoS mitigation, WAFs, bot management, or abuse prevention systems.
- Experience with networking fundamentals (HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, proxies, CDNs, load balancing).
✨ Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
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