Staff Software Engineer, Ads & Core Serving Platform

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At Pinterest AI isnt just a feature its a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact and were looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities well explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

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Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help evolve the serving platforms that power Ads and Core experiences. You will lead large-scale low-latency distributed-system initiatives that make our serving stack more performant reliable observable and easier to extend.

You will work across Ads and Core engineering teams to define durable platform capabilities modernize frameworks and unlock faster product iteration with high confidence in production.

What youll do:

• Set technical direction and lead architecture for major serving-platform initiatives across Ads and Core.
• Build and operate scalable highly available systems with clear performance reliability and efficiency goals.
• Partner with product ML infrastructure and Core/Ads engineering teams to translate complex requirements into reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve the serving stack through framework modernization API evolution experimentation controls observability and debugging tools.
• Lead complex projects end to end: technical strategy design implementation rollout adoption and operational readiness.
• Use AI to accelerate analysis debugging design exploration and iteration while applying sound engineering judgment and validation.
• Raise the quality bar through design reviews code reviews documentation and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and scale technical leadership across the organization.
  
  

What were looking for:

• 8 years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams or organizations.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems online serving low-latency services or infrastructure platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound tradeoffs across latency reliability scalability cost and developer experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and cross-functional partners.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java C Go or Python.
• Experience mentoring engineers and elevating technical standards.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve the speed and quality of day-to-day engineering workflows with a rigorous approach to testing validation and responsible use.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience with ads delivery recommendation or search serving retrieval ranking or experimentation systems.
  • Experience with serving-framework migrations platform consolidation or developer tooling.
  • Experience with observability production debugging traffic management or incident response.

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 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 per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices Palo Alto OR San Francisco

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