# Staff Data Engineer, tvScientific

**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $156k – $320k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Spark, Scala, AWS, Identity Resolution, Data Pipelines, Data Governance, Data Lakes, Streaming Pipelines, APIs, Data Quality
**Posted:** 2026-02-25

> Lead design and implementation of scalable identity resolution and data governance platforms. Build pipelines for identity data management, ensure privacy compliance, and partner with teams to deliver reliable data services. Requires 5+ years Spark/Scala experience.

## Job Description

## What you'll do:

### Identity Services:
- Design and maintain a scalable identity resolution platform
- Build pipelines and services to ingest, normalize, link, and version identity data across multiple sources
- Ensure deterministic and probabilistic matching logic that is transparent, auditable, and measurable
- Partner with product and analytics teams to expose identity data through reliable, well-documented APIs and datasets
- Build and operate batch and streaming pipelines using modern data stack tools
- Create clear documentation, standards, and runbooks for identity and governance systems

### Data Governance & Trust:
- Own data governance foundations including data lineage, quality checks, schema enforcement, and access controls
- Implement privacy-by-design principles (PII handling, consent enforcement, retention policies)
- Collaborate with legal, privacy, and security teams to operationalize regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)
- Establish monitoring and alerting for data quality, freshness, and integrity

## What we're looking for:
- Data engineering experience with proven track record building data infrastructure using **Spark with Scala**
- Proven experience building data infrastructure using **Spark with Scala** for at least **5 years**
- Experience in delivering significant technical initiatives and building reliable, large scale services
- Experience in delivering APIs backed by relationship-heavy datasets
- Experience implementing data governance practices, including data quality, metadata management, and access controls
- Strong understanding of privacy-by-design principles and handling of sensitive or regulated data
- Familiarity with data lakes, cloud warehouses, and storage formats
- Strong proficiency in **AWS services**
- Successful design and implementation of scalable and efficient data infrastructure
- High attention to detail in implementation of automated data quality checks
- Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- **Bachelor's degree** in Computer Science or a related field

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