# Sr. Production Engineer, Solutions Engineering

**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $140k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Linux, MySQL, Kafka, Envoy, Hadoop, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Senior Production Engineer building AI agents, platforms, and automation to ensure reliability of Pinterest's large-scale distributed systems serving hundreds of millions of users.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Design and build AI agents that augment production reliability work — Develop agents that assist engineers with service health analysis, reliability recommendations, migration playbook generation, and risk identification
- Drive large-scale infrastructure modernization with AI-accelerated execution — Lead Kubernetes adoption and platform transitions using AI to generate automation
- Transform consulting patterns into scalable platforms — Execute scoped reliability engagements with engineering teams, then encode successful approaches into AI-assisted tools and automation
- Build the knowledge infrastructure that powers Pinterest's operational agent ecosystem — Create migration playbooks, operational runbooks, incident patterns, and best practices
- Develop software solutions to enable reliability and operability of large-scale distributed systems
- Build tools and automation to eliminate toil and reduce operational overhead
- Build meaningful, insightful and actionable SLIs — Develop service level indicators that provide clear signals of system health
- Automate critical portions of Pinterest's engineering processes
- Manage capacity and performance to help scale our infrastructure — Partner with teams to plan and optimize capacity across public and private clouds

## What we’re looking for

- 5+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale, high-performance distributed systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong programming skills in Python or Go — ability to build production-grade platforms, agents, and automation
- Deep knowledge of Linux/Unix internals and experience with open source infrastructure (MySQL, Kafka, Envoy, Hadoop, etc.)
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience deploying web applications to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and working with distributed, service-oriented architecture

## Preferred

- Experience developing AI agents for infrastructure automation, operational decision-making, or reliability workflows
- AI/ML infrastructure experience (LLM-based systems, model serving, agentic workflows)
- Technical consulting or embedded SRE experience with cross-functional engineering teams

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