Sr. Security Software Engineer, Internal Identity & Access Management at Pinterest

**Who this is for** This role is for a skilled software engineer interested in the intersection of security and backend infrastructure, specifically focusing on

Work type: remote

Location: Chicago, IL, US; Remote, US

Salary: $155,584 – $320,320/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** This role is for a skilled software engineer interested in the intersection of security and backend infrastructure, specifically focusing on identity, authentication, and authorization. **Key highlights** You will work on mission-critical IAM systems and access controls for production infrastructure and AI agents, using languages like Golang and Python to ensure security at scale. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 4-5+ years of software development experience, specifically with distributed systems. - Are familiar with IAM protocols such as OAuth, SAML, or RBAC. - Possess experience working with containerization and public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS). - Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and accountability regarding security and system reliability.

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](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/our-life/pinflex/) 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](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/our-philosophy-on-ai-in-hiring/).

The Internal Identity & Access Management (I2AM) team is responsible for critical production infrastructure that provides a foundational notion of Identity and strong authentication and authorization controls across Pinterest. Our backend is primarily written in Golang, Python with some C++ while our frontend tools are written in React and TypeScript. We’re looking for an experienced software engineer who will help us build robust tooling to define and evaluate access controls across production infrastructure. A security background is not necessary but ideal candidates will have familiarity with the problems or related spaces, such as Infrastructure or Identity.

What you’ll do:

• Help shape our identity and authorization controls for users, services and AI Agents.

• Design, implement, and maintain mission-critical software that will help us deliver robust IAM infrastructure and libraries to our customers.

• Leverage Agentic AI to improve systems and least privilege, while applying judgment and verification to ensure correctness and quality. Improve code quality and system performance using AI Coding Agents.

• Collaborate with a variety of teams to build performant and resilient AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Auditing) platform controls into various high-traffic services including our AI Agents, online/offline data platforms, databases, service mesh (Envoy) and other critical infrastructure components

• Represent the I2AM team across the Security Organization and with our X-org partners, including Networking, Data Platform, Cloud Platform, Agent Platform and product teams.

• Work with and mentor more junior engineers on the I2AM team

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

• 4-5+ years of software development experience

• A history of building & operating large scale distributed systems

• Past experience influencing technical architecture and roadmap adoption while working across other teams

• Proven track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review).

• Demonstrated ability to prototype and use AI tooling to improve reliability and quality of day-to-day workflow and system performance.

• High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables.

• Experience in some of the following areas is a strong plus:

• Infrastructure provisioning tools (Terraform, Puppet, etc.)

• Identity, Account Security, Authentication/Authorization (OAuth, SAML, RBAC) protocols

• AWS or other public cloud infrastructure, containerization such as Kubernetes

• Familiarity with networking protocols (Application layer)

• We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.

• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our[ PinFlex](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/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
$155,584—$320,320 USD

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