Analytics Engineer

About Pinterest:

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.

We are looking for a Software Engineer, Analytics Engineering to help improve the quality and velocity of data science at Pinterest. You will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products we build at Pinterest, by building rock solid data foundations and tooling. Your expertise will be utilized to solve some of the most complex engineering challenges at the company. You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence and others. The results of your work will influence and uplevel our data science and product development teams serving hundreds of millions of pinners, creators, advertisers and merchants around the world.

 

What you’ll do:

• Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation and communicate those to product engineering teams to help us fulfill our mission - to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love
• Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale while developing comprehensive knowledge of data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development
• Work closely with Data Scientists and Engineers to build and prototype tools and processes that enable the self service of key data sets, insights, and metric investigations 
• Contribute to comprehensive documentation of tools and datasets
• Think big and drive the strategy for better data quality and discoverability within Pinterest
• Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to help build the next experiences on Pinterest

 

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience working with data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment
• Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity; fluency in SQL (or other database languages) and a scripting language (Python or R); including SQL-based experience in nested data structure manipulation, windowing functions, query optimization, data partitioning techniques
• Experience in conducting workflow orchestration; ETL / ELT with huge and complicated datasets and handling DAG data dependencies
• Consistent track record of supplying analytics solutions to existing teams, with ability to take open ended goals and scope them into defined and impactful objectives
• A team player who’s able to partner with cross-functional leadership to quickly turn insights into actions
• An accountable leader who can prioritize the most important work even when many things seem urgent or important

 

Relocation Statement:

•  This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

 

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per month/quarter and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the Mexico City office.

 

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Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.