$125k–$276k Software Jobs in California (Now Hiring) Aug 2026 — Page 182 | Clera

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Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

$177k–$365k/yr

Senior+$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Performance Engineering, Capacity Engineering, Java

Software Engineer II

Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

$146k–$255k/yr

Mid level$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: MySQL, Python, Terraform, Puppet, Distributed Systems

Security Software Engineer II, Detection and Response

San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

$124k–$255k/yr

Mid level$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: Intrusion Detection, Incident Response, SIEM Queries, Threat Hunting, EDR

Sr. Engineering Manager, Programmatic Ad Tech, tvScientific

San Francisco, California, United States · Remote OK

$209k–$429k/yr

Senior+$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: Engineering Management, Programmatic Ad Tech, System Architecture, Scalable Systems, Data-Intensive Services

Manager II, Trends Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

$177k–$365k/yr

Senior+$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: People Leadership, Software Engineering, Product Strategy, LLM Implementation, Technical Architecture

Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering

Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

$228k–$469k/yr

Senior+$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Statistical Methods, E-commerce Systems, Computational Advertising

Software Engineer II, iOS

San Francisco, California, United States · Remote OK

$124k–$255k/yr

Mid level$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: iOS Development, Swift, Objective C, Xcode, Memory Management

Sr. Data Scientist, Infrastructure

San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

$140k–$288k/yr

Senior$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: SQL, Analytical Programming, Data Pipeline Development, Experimentation, Measurement Systems

Staff Software Engineer, Edge

Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

$177k–$365k/yr

Senior$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: C++, Golang, Python, Envoy Proxy, CDN

Machine Learning Engineer II, Computer Vision Applied Science

San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

$139k–$286k/yr

Mid level$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: Computer Vision, Generative AI, Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models, PyTorch

Staff Technical Program Manager, Compute Infrastructure

San Francisco, California, United States · Remote OK

$146k–$300k/yr

Senior+$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: Technical Program Management, GenAI, Cloud Architecture, Strategic Planning, Cross-functional Leadership

Distinguished Engineer

Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

$280k–$577k/yr

Senior+$2.5B raised

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 e…

Skills: Large-scale Systems, Machine Learning, Retrieval and Ranking, Generative AI, Large Language Models

Strategic Finance Associate, Product Finance

San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

$125k–$165k/yr

Senior$768M raised

About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Sear…

Skills: Financial modeling, Strategic analysis, Pricing strategy, Token economics, Compute modeling

AIML - ML Prototyping Engineer, Machine Learning Research

Cupertino, California, United States · On-site

Senior$11B raised

The Machine Learning Research Prototyping team sits at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world impact. We serve as the bridge between groundbreaking AI and ML discoveries and the innovative products that…

Skills: PyTorch, JAX, MLX, Python, Swift

Product Operations Manager - Child Safety

Culver City, California, United States · On-site

Senior$11B raised

The App Store is the world’s safest and most vibrant app marketplace, serving more than 850 million visitors each week. Since the App Store launched in 2008, it has helped creators, dreamers, and learners of all ages and…

Skills: Product Operations, Business Operations, Product Management, Digital Marketplaces, E-commerce

Firmware Engineer, Connected Warfare

Costa Mesa, California, United States · On-site

$132k–$198k/yr

Mid level

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century…

Skills: C, Embedded systems, Firmware development, Device drivers, Microcontrollers

Software Development Engineer II – Back-End (Mission-Focused | ArcGIS)

Redlands, California, United States · On-site

$97k–$162k/yr

Mid level

Overview Join Esri`s team and build backend systems that power mission critical geospatial applications supporting Defense and Intelligence operations. As a Software Development Engineer II, you will design and develop s…

Skills: Python, Node.js, Java, REST API Design, ArcGIS Enterprise

Sr. Software Development Engineer - Topographic Mapping

Redlands, California, United States · On-site

$123k–$202k/yr

Senior

Overview Esri’s Professional Services division is seeking an experienced Sr. Software Development Engineer to help advance the next generation of geospatial data quality capabilities across the ArcGIS platform. In this r…

Skills: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, C++

DevOps Engineer II - Geocoding Services

Redlands, California, United States · On-site

$101k–$167k/yr

Mid level

Overview As a member of the geocoding team, you will develop back office and cloud hosted systems which support testing and deployment of Esri’s World Geocoding services and solutions. Your contributions will help automa…

Skills: Windows Administration, Linux Administration, AWS, CI/CD, Jenkins

Principal Productization Manager

Redlands, California, United States · On-site

$139k–$229k/yr

Senior+

Overview As a senior member of Esri’s Product Enablement Team, the Principal Productization Manager will apply product and business acumen, operational leadership, project management, and collaboration skills to drive pr…

Skills: Product Enablement, Project Management, Operational Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Product Licensing

Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States • Hybrid

Senior+

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$177k–$365k/yr
Full-time
bachelor degree
Equity
Posted 7d ago
~40 hrs/week

Responsibilities

Improve the efficiency and performance of large-scale shared environments and distributed systems, specifically focusing on Kubernetes. Collaborate with Infrastructure and SRE teams to build profiling capabilities and leverage AI to accelerate performance investigations.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience with a deep understanding of infrastructure capacity and performance at scale. Proficiency in Java, Python, or C++ and experience with AWS or similar cloud environments are essential.

Full job description

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.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's 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.

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering. The team is responsible for efficiently managing one of the largest-scale cloud-native infrastructures in the world. This role is highly impactful, as efficiency is an ongoing strategic priority for Pinterest. The role has direct visibility across Pinterest Engineering and with Engineering and company leadership. The team is looking for a candidate with a strong background in implementing performance and efficiency projects on large scale distributed systems.

What you’ll do:

Improve the efficiency of large scale shared environments like Kubernetes
Improve the performance and efficiency of large scale distributed systems that drive Pinterest systems
Build develop and mature profiling and optimization capabilities for Pinterest scale
Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and SRE teams in their mission to deliver highly available, resilient, secure and efficient foundations for Pinterest’s tech stack
Leverage AI to scale the impact of yourself and the team, including:
- Accelerate performance investigations (e.g. quickly distill logs/metrics/traces and prior learnings) while verifying findings through measurement and testing
- Build tooling and agents that allow users to self-serve efficiency insights and recommendations
- Iterate faster on optimization approaches and rollout plans, then validate impact with experiments and production guardrails

What we’re looking for:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience
Deep understanding of infrastructure capacity and performance
Experience leading efficiency initiatives at scale on Kubernetes or other large scale shared infrastructure
Strong technical and performance engineering skills to collaborate with stakeholders on complex and ambiguous technical challenges
Experience building and managing highly available distributed applications at scale
Proficiency in software development languages such as Java, Python and C++
Excellent skills in communicating complex technical issues
Experience with AWS or similar cloud environments
Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs
Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review)
High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables
Bonus points for the following:
- Hands-on experience with large, cloud-native multi-tenant platforms at Internet scale

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/month and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Relocation Statement:

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

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

$177,185—$364,795 USD

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.

By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.

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KubernetesDistributed SystemsAWSJavaPythonC++Cloud-NativeCapacity EngineeringPerformance EngineeringSREInfrastructureAIProfilingOptimizationMulti-tenant PlatformsScalability

About Pinterest

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Bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

Industry: Software Development
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Founded: 2010
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
LinkedIn followers: 1,421,343
Total funding: $2.5B

Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It's the visual inspiration platform where more than 600 million monthly active users worldwide come to search, save, and shop the best ideas in the world for all of life’s moments.

Offices: 651 Brannan St, San Francisco, California, US

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