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Build automation and tooling that hardens Pinterest's enterprise security posture
Pinterest's Corporate Security team is hiring a Security Software Engineer II to build scripts, tools, and CI/CD-integrated pipelines for vulnerability scanning and incident triage, while embedding secure engineering practices across the development lifecycle. Pinterest's process explicitly evaluates how candidates use and critically verify AI-assisted work, not just raw technical output.
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What this interview tests
- Building automation/tooling for vulnerability scanning and incident triage
- Integrating security tooling into CI/CD pipelines
- OS-level hardening (Linux/UNIX, macOS, or Windows internals)
- Secure engineering practices across the software development lifecycle
- Critical verification of AI-assisted work (testing, source-checking, peer review)
- Cross-functional collaboration with security engineering and IT
Common question themes
Walk through an automation script or pipeline you built for security operations
Describe a hardening change you made to an OS or system you owned
How do you use AI in your security workflow, and how do you verify its output
Tell me about a time you caught an error in AI-assisted or automated work before it shipped
How have you partnered with IT or security engineering to remediate a threat
What's your approach to integrating a security tool into an existing CI/CD pipeline
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