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Software Engineer II, Big Data, tvScientific
Pinterest INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 218 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 53 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Pinterest INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Sr. QA Engineer, tvScientific” (Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers) in CA: $165k–$165k, median $165k. Most were filed at wage level III (100%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 218 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 53 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 . About tvScientific tvScientific is the first and only CTV advertising platform purpose-built for performance marketers. We leverage massive data and cutting-edge science to automate and optimize TV advertising to drive business outcomes. Our solution combines media buying, optimization, measurement, and attribution in one, efficient platform. Our platform is built by industry leaders with a long history in programmatic advertising, digital media, and ad verification who have now purpose-built a CTV performance platform advertisers can trust to grow their business. As a Data Engineer at tvScientific, you will be a key player in implementing the robust data infrastructure to power our data-heavy company. You will collaborate with our cross-functional teams to evolve our core data pipelines, design for efficiency as we scale, and store data in optimal engines and formats. This is an individual contributor role, where you will work to define and implement a strategic vision for data engineering within the organization. What you'll do: • Design and implement robust data infrastructure in AWS, using Spark with Scala • Evolve our core data pipelines to efficiently scale for our massive growth • Store data in optimal engines and formats, matching your designs to our performance needs and cost factors • Collaborate with our cross-functional teams to design data solutions that meet business needs • Design and implement knowledge graphs, exposing their functionality both via Batch Processing and APIs • Leverage and optimize AWS resources while designing for scale • Collaborate closely with our Data Science and Product teams • How we'll define success: • Successful design and implementation of scalable and efficient data infrastructure • Timely delivery and optimization of data assets and APIs • High attention to detail in implementation of automated data quality checks • Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams What we're looking for: • Production data engineering experience • Proficiency in Spark and Scala, with proven experience building data infrastructure in Spark using Scala is preferred • Experience in delivering significant technical initiatives and building reliable, large scale services • Experience in delivering APIs backed by relationship-heavy datasets • Familiarity with data lakes, cloud warehouses, and storage formats • Strong proficiency in AWS services • Expertise in SQL for data manipulation and extraction • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field • Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and